Measure of the National Assembly for Wales

In the case of contemporary Welsh law, the difference with acts is that the competence to pass Measures was subject to 'LCOs' or Legislative Competence Order, which transferred powers to the Assembly by amending Schedule 5 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.

In Wales each Assembly Measure had to be accompanied with a matter which was transferred using the Legislative Competence Order (LCO) system.

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[4] The first stage was the agreement of the principles of the Assembly Measure, which meant the first approval of the legislation for it to be scrutinised, then it would have been scrutinized at committee level, where a committee of Assembly Members could have debated and proposed amendments to the Measure which is then accompanied with debates in 'plenary', which would have been required to approve the amendments.

Assembly measures begin with the following enacting formula: Part 4 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 gave the Assembly legislative competence in the following 20 "Subjects" outlined on schedule 7 of that act in relation to Measures.