{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2025/2",
  "legislation_title": "Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Examination into use of resources",
  "text": "(1) The Auditor General for Wales may carry out examinations into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which resources have been used in discharging the Learning Welsh Institute’s functions.\n(2) But that does not entitle the Auditor General for Wales to question the merits of the Learning Welsh Institute’s policy objectives.\n(3) Before carrying out an examination the Auditor General for Wales must—\n(a) consult Senedd Cymru, and\n(b) take into account the views of Senedd Cymru as to whether or not an examination should be carried out.\n(4) The Auditor General for Wales must—\n(a) as soon as is reasonably practicable, publish a report of the results of an examination carried out under this paragraph, and\n(b) lay a copy of the report before Senedd Cymru.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 18 in force at 1.8.2027, see s. 56(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2025/2/schedule/2/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:44.004947+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."
}