# 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
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## Canonical Branch
[[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]]
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