The Welsh Language Standards (No. 9) Regulations 2023

Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Welsh Language Standards (No. 9) Regulations 2023.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 31 October 2023.

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

(4) In these Regulations—

a “body” (“corff”) means a person falling within one or both of the categories of persons listed in Schedule 4;

a “member of staff” (“aelod o staff”) means an employee of a body or an individual working for a body (and “staff” (“staff”) must be construed accordingly);

a “qualifying person” (“person neilltuedig”) has the same meaning as in paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011.

(5) In these Regulations—

(a) references to any activity being carried out by a body, or to any service being provided by a body, are to be read as including a reference to that activity being carried out on the body’s behalf, or to that service being provided on the body’s behalf by a third party under arrangements made between the third party and the body;

(b) accordingly, unless a compliance notice provides to the contrary, a body will have failed to comply with a standard in respect of an activity or service it has arranged to be carried out or provided by a third party if that activity or service has not been carried out or provided in accordance with the standard.

(6) Nothing in these Regulations requires a body to comply with a standard in respect of an activity carried out by it or a service provided by it where it is carrying out that activity or providing that service on behalf of a third party under arrangements made between it and the third party.

Standards specified

2.—(1) In Schedule 1—

(a) Part 1 specifies service delivery standards;

(b) Part 2 provides that a compliance notice must require a body to comply with certain standards specified in Part 1 if it has required the body to comply with certain other standards;

(c) Part 3 defines a number of words and expressions.

(2) In Schedule 2—

(a) Part 1 specifies record keeping standards;

(b) Part 2 defines a number of words and expressions.

(3) Schedule 3 specifies standards that deal with matters which are supplementary to the matters dealt with in the standards specified in Schedules 1 and 2 and, in particular—

(a) Part 1 specifies service delivery standards that deal with supplementary matters;

(b) Part 2 specifies record keeping standards that deal with supplementary matters;

(c) Part 3 makes provision about interpreting the supplementary standards.

Standards that are specifically applicable

3.  The Welsh Ministers authorise the Welsh Language Commissioner to give a compliance notice to a body requiring it to comply with any of the standards specified under regulation 2 and Schedules 1 to 3.

Jeremy Miles

Minister for Education and Welsh Language, one of the Welsh Ministers

22 September 2023