# Well-being of Future Generations Wales Act **Domain:** Deep Time / Wales / Long-Term Governance **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Level A — enacted law ## Definition The **Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015** imposes legally binding long-term duties on specified Welsh public bodies and requires sustainable-development decisionmaking. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity It demonstrates that long-term impact can be a mandatory public-law decision criterion rather than optional ethics. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Official Welsh guidance identifies long-term thinking, prevention, integration, collaboration, and involvement as statutory ways of working. ## Evidentiary Boundary Its horizons are human-generational, not million-year continuity. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Future Generations Commissioner|Future Generations Commissioner]] · [[wiki/Intergenerational Stewardship|Intergenerational Stewardship]] · [[wiki/Deep-Time Legal Architecture|Deep-Time Legal Architecture]] ## Sources / Primary Anchors - https://www.gov.wales/well-being-future-generations-act-essentials-html <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->