Section 25 Powers to give Welsh names to statutory bodies etc.C1

United Kingdom

(1)

Where a name is conferred by an Act of Parliament on any body, office or place, the appropriate Minister may by order confer on the body, office or place an alternative name in Welsh.

(2)

Where an Act of Parliament gives power, exercisable by statutory instrument, to confer a name on any body, office or place, the power shall include power to confer alternative names in English and Welsh.

F1(3)

Subsection (1) above does not apply in relation to a name conferred on any area or local authority by the M1Local Government Act 1972.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 25(3) substituted (3.4.1995) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(2)(6), Sch. 16 para. 106(2); S.I. 1995/852, art. 9(1), Sch. 5

Marginal citations

M1: 1927 c. 70.

Modifications

C1: S. 25 functions made exercisable concurrently or jointly with the Welsh Ministers by 2006 c. 32, Sch. 3A para. 1 (as inserted (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), s. 71(4), Sch. 4 para. 1 (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(p))