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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-act-1967-repealed-21121993/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-act-1967-repealed-21121993/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/66",
  "legislation_title": "Welsh Language Act 1967 (repealed 21.12.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-act-1967-repealed-21121993",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Use of Welsh in legal proceedings.",
  "text": "(1) In any legal proceeding in Wales or Monmouthshire the Welsh language may be spoken by any party, witness or other person who desires to use it, subject in the case of proceedings in a court other than a magistrates’ court to such prior notice as may be required by rules of court; and any necessary provision for interpretation shall be made accordingly.\n(2) Section 1 of the Welsh Courts Act 1942, and in paragraph 7 of the Schedule to the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 the words from the beginning to “language and”, are hereby repealed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1942 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1943 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 1(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/66/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:55:06.888774+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."
}