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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-26.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/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Implementing the National Framework",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers must take all reasonable steps to implement the National Framework for Welsh Language Education and Learning Welsh.\n(2) Each local authority must—\n(a) take all reasonable steps to meet targets set by the National Framework for Welsh Language Education and Learning Welsh in relation to its area;\n(b) at the request of the Welsh Ministers, provide any information required by the Welsh Ministers—\n(i) to enable them to carry out what is required under section 24(6) and section 25(2)(a);\n(ii) to set‍ targets under section 24(5), or section 24(7).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(4)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 26(2)(b) in force at 1.4.2026 by W.S.I. 2026/78, art. 2(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2025/2/section/26",
    "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."
}