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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-17.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": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Amending Welsh language education delivery plan to change school language category",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a school’s governing body proposes an amendment to the school’s Welsh language education delivery plan for the purpose of changing the school’s language category.\n(2) A school’s language category may not be changed—\n(a) from a “Dual Language” category to a “Primarily English Language, partly Welsh” language category;\n(b) from a “Primarily Welsh Language” category to a “Dual Language” category or a “Primarily English Language, partly Welsh” language category.\n(3) The school’s governing body must consult the persons listed in section 14(2)(b) before submitting an amended delivery plan in draft to the local authority under section 16(4).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(4)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 17 in force at 1.4.2026 for specified purposes by W.S.I. 2026/78, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2025/2/section/17",
    "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."
}