{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-28.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/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Consultation and publication of the National Framework",
  "text": "(1) In preparin‍g the National Framework for Welsh Language Education and Learning Welsh, the Welsh Ministers must consult the following—\n(a) each local authority;\n(b) the National Institute for Learning Welsh (see Part 5);\n(c) the Welsh Language Commissioner;\n(d) His Majesty’s Chief Inspector for Education and Training in Wales;\n(e) the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research;\n(f) y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (company number 07550507);\n(g) any other persons they consider appropriate.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers must—\n(a) publish the National Framework for Welsh Language Education and Learning Welsh;\n(b) lay the National Framework before Senedd Cymru.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers must lay the first National Framework for Welsh Language Education and Learning Welsh before Senedd Cymru under subsection (2)(b) before 31 July 2028.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(4)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 28(1)(a)(c)-(g)(2)(3) in force at 1.4.2026 by W.S.I. 2026/78, art. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "wsi/2026/78",
      "affecting_title": "The Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Transitory Provision) Order 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2025/2/section/28",
    "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."
}