{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-31.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/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Period of local Welsh in education strategic plans",
  "text": "(1) Each local Welsh in education strategic plan has effect for a period of 5 years, where—\n(a) the first period of 5 years starts on a date specified by the Welsh Ministers by regulations, and\n(b) each subsequent period of 5 years starts on the day after the previous period of 5 years comes to an end.\n(2) But each local Welsh in education strategic plan must set out the steps a local authority intends to take in accordance with section 30(3) over a period of 10 years.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(4)(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2025/2/section/31",
    "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."
}