{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-9.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/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Delegation",
  "text": "(1) The Learning Welsh Institute may delegate any of its functions to any one or more of—\n(a) its committees,\n(b) its sub-committees (whether established under paragraph 8(1) or (2)),\n(c) its members, or\n(d) its members of staff.\n(2) A committee of the Learning Welsh Institute may delegate any function exercisable by it to—\n(a) a sub-committee of the Learning Welsh Institute (whether established under paragraph 8(1) or (2)),\n(b) a member of the Learning Welsh Institute, or\n(c) a member of the Learning Welsh Institute’s staff.\n(3) A sub-committee (whether established under paragraph 8(1) or (2)) may delegate any function exercisable by it to—\n(a) a member of the Learning Welsh Institute, or\n(b) a member of the Learning Welsh Institute’s staff.\n(4) The Learning Welsh Institute may—\n(a) direct a committee or sub-committee that it may not delegate a function specified in the direction;\n(b) direct a committee or sub-committee to vary or revoke any delegation specified in the direction;\n(c) direct a committee to vary or revoke any direction given by the committee under sub-paragraph (5).\n(5) A committee of the Learning Welsh Institute that has delegated a function to a sub-committee may—\n(a) direct the sub-committee that it may not delegate the function;\n(b) direct the sub-committee to vary or revoke any delegation of that function made by it.\n(6) A function is delegated under this paragraph to the extent and on the terms specified by the person making the delegation, but this is subject to any direction under sub-paragraphs (4) and (5).\n(7) The delegation of a function under this paragraph does not prevent the Learning Welsh Institute (or the committee or sub-committee, as the case may be) from exercising the function in question.\n(8) The delegation of a function under this paragraph does not affect the Learning Welsh Institute’s responsibility for exercising the function in question.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}