{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-wales-measure-2009/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-wales-measure-2009/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "mwa/2009/5",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Wales) Measure 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-wales-measure-2009",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Role of Welsh Ministers",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 17 to the Equality Act 2010 is amended in accordance with this section.\n(2) After paragraph 6D (independent advocacy services — Wales) insert—\n“6E Power of direction — Wales\n(1) If the Welsh Ministers are satisfied (whether on a complaint or otherwise) that a local authority—\n(a) has acted, or is proposing to act, unreasonably in the discharge of a duty imposed by or under paragraph 6B, 6C or 6D, or\n(b) has failed to discharge a duty imposed by or under any of those paragraphs,\nthey may give that local authority such directions as to the discharge of the duty as appear to them to be expedient.\n(2) A direction may be given under sub-paragraph (1) even if the performance of the duty is contingent on the opinion of the local authority.\n(3) A direction—\n(a) may be varied or revoked by the Welsh Ministers;\n(b) may be enforced, on the application of the Welsh Ministers, by a mandatory order obtained in accordance with section 31 of the Senior Courts Act 1981.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 16 substituted (6.7.2011) by The Right of a Child to Make a Disability Discrimination Claim (Schools) (Wales) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1651), arts. 1(2), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 6.3.2012 by S.I. 2012/320, art. 3(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2009/5/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:48.386383+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}