{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/10",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Languages Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Duty of Scottish Ministers to promote Gaelic education",
  "text": "(1) The Education (Scotland) Act 2016 is modified as follows.\n(2) The title of Part 2 becomes “Gaelic education”.\n(3) Before section 7 and the italic heading immediately preceding it insert—\n“Functions of Scottish Ministers\nDuty of Scottish Ministers to promote Gaelic education\n6A (1) The Scottish Ministers must promote, facilitate and support—\n(a) the provision in schools of—\n(i) Gaelic learner education,\n(ii) Gaelic medium education, and\n(b) the teaching of the Gaelic language in the provision of further education by education authorities.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers must in particular promote, facilitate and support the provision of adequate education resources in the Gaelic language for use in school education by teachers and pupils.”.\n(4) In section 18(2) (interpretation of Part 2), in the definition of “Gaelic language”, for “spoken” substitute “used”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 48(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 15 in force at 30.11.2025 by S.S.I. 2025/348, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/10/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:55.928534+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."
}