{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-act-1993/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-act-1993/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/38",
  "legislation_title": "Welsh Language Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-act-1993",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Meaning of “public body”.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Act “public body” means—\n(a) a county council, county borough council, district council or community council;\n(b) a joint committee of two or more bodies within paragraph (a) above;\n(c) a joint board of which the members are two or more bodies within paragraph (a) above;\n(ca) a National Park authority;\n(d) a police and crime commissioner;\n(e) a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;\n(f) . . . a Special Health Authority established under section 28 of the National Health Service Act 2006 or section 22 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 ;\n(ff) a Local Health Board established under section 11 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 ;\n(g) a National Health Service trust constituted under the National Health Service Act 2006 or the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;\n(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(i) a Community Health Council established under section 182 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 ;\n(ia) the Wales Centre for Health;\n(j) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(k) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(l) the governing body of a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community or foundation special school (within the meaning of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998);\n(m) a further education corporation established under section 15 or 16 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;\n(n) a higher education corporation established under section 121 or 122 of the Education Reform Act 1988;\n(na) the Commissioner for Older People in Wales;\n(o) any person (whether or not a body corporate or unincorporate)—\n(i) who appears to the Secretary of State to be exercising functions of a public nature, or\n(ii) all or substantially all of whose activities appear to the Secretary of State to be conducted under an agreement, or in accordance with arrangements, made with a public body within paragraphs (a) to (n) or sub-paragraph (i) above or a person acting as servant or agent of the Crown,\nand who is specified, or is of a description of persons specified, by order made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Part of this Act.\n(2) The power to make an order under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 repealed (6.7.2015 for S.N.I.) by Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 1), ss. 145(2)(a), 156(2); S.I. 2015/1413, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(a) inserted (3.4.1995) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 106(1); S.I. 1995/852, art. 9(1), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(ca) inserted (23.11.1995) by 1995 c. 25, s. 78, Sch. 10 para. 37; S.I. 1995/2950, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 6(d) substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 213; S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(e) substituted (E.W.) (1.10.2004 for E. and 10.11.2004 for W.) by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21), ss. 53, 61, Sch. 1 para. 84; S.I. 2004/2304, art. 2 (subject to art. 3); S.I. 2004/2917, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(f) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, s. 2(1)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. III, para. 125(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(f) omitted (1.4.2007) by virtue of The References to Health Authorities Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/961), arts. 1(1), 3, Sch. para. 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(f) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 2, 7, Sch. 1 para. 164(a)(ii) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(ff) inserted (10.10.2002 for W. and 1.3.2007 for E.) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), s. 6(2), Sch. 5 para. 37; S.I. 2002/2532, art. 2; S.I. 2006/1407, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 12(c) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(ff) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 2, 7, Sch. 1 para. 164(b) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(g) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 2, 7, Sch. 1 para. 164(c) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 6(f) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1), 5(1)(2), Sch. 1 Pt. III, para. 125(b), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(i) substituted (20.10.2003 for W. and 1.12.2003 for E.) by Health (Wales) Act 2003 (c. 4), ss. 7, 10(2), Sch. 3 para. 7; S.I. 2003/2660, art. 2(1)(ii) (subject to art. 2(2)); S.I. 2003/3064, art. 2(1)(ii) (subject to art. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(i) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 2, 7, Sch. 1 para. 164(d) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(ia) inserted (1.4.2005) by Health (Wales) Act 2003 (c. 4), ss. 7, 10(2), Sch. 3 para. 8; S.I. 2003/2660, art. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(j) omitted (1.4.2006) by virtue of The National Council for Education and Training for Wales (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3238), arts. 1(1), 9(1), Sch. 1 para. 29 (with transitional provision in art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(k) omitted (W.) (1.8.2024) by virtue of The Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/803), regs. 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(l) substituted (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1), Sch. 30 para. 50; S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(na) inserted (14.10.2006 for W.) by Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 30), ss. 1, 23, Sch. 1 para. 18; S.I. 2006/2699, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1988 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland and Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/38/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:52.006643+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."
}