{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-5.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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Removal etc. of members",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may remove a non-executive member from office if they are satisfied that—\n(a) the person is unfit to remain a member, or\n(b) the person is unable or unwilling to exercise the functions of a member.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may suspend a non-executive member from office by notice if it appears to them that there may be grounds for exercising the power in sub-paragraph (1).\n(3) A suspension by notice under sub-paragraph (2) has effect—\n(a) for a period specified in the notice, or\n(b) if no period is specified in the notice, until further notice is given by the Welsh Ministers to the suspended person.\n(4) A non-executive member may resign by giving notice to the Welsh Ministers.\n(5) A person ceases to be a non-executive member if that person becomes disqualified (see paragraph 3).\n(6) A person ceases to be chair or deputy chair (as the case may be) if that person ceases to be a non-executive member.\n(7) A person ceases to be an executive member upon ceasing to be a member of staff.\n(8) A person suspended from office under this paragraph may not participate in the proceedings of the Learning Welsh Institute, or the proceedings of its committees or sub-committees, during the period in which the suspension has effect.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}