{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-5/paragraph-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-5/paragraph-39.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2020/1073",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/39",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Welsh language",
  "text": "(1) Where an NHS pharmacist provides pharmaceutical services through the medium of Welsh, the NHS pharmacist must notify the Local Health Board on whose pharmaceutical list the NHS pharmacist is included, in writing.\n(2) An NHS pharmacist must make available a Welsh language version of any document or form for use by patients and/or members of the public, provided by the Local Health Board.\n(3) Where an NHS pharmacist displays a new sign or notice in connection with pharmaceutical services, the text on the sign or notice must be in English and Welsh, and an NHS pharmacist may utilise the translation service offered by the Local Health Board for this purpose.\n(4) An NHS pharmacist must encourage the wearing of a badge, provided by the Local Health Board, by those delivering pharmaceutical services who are Welsh speaking, to convey that they are able to speak Welsh.\n(5) An NHS pharmacist must encourage those delivering pharmaceutical services to utilise information and/or attend training courses and events provided by the Local Health Board, so that they can develop—\n(a) an awareness of the Welsh language (including awareness of its history and its role in Welsh culture), and\n(b) an understanding of how the Welsh language can be used in connection with the pharmaceutical services provided.\n(6) An NHS pharmacist must encourage those delivering pharmaceutical services to establish and record the Welsh or English language preference expressed by or on behalf of a patient.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 39 in force at 1.10.2020, see reg. 1(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1073/schedule/5/paragraph/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:49.207634+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."
}