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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-and-education-wales-act-2025/section-4.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/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Reviewing the Welsh language standards",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers must review the standards specified under section 26 of the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 1) with a view to determining whether amendments are necessary to—\n(a) any of the standards relating to improving or assessing workforce Welsh language skills to—\n(i) facilitate meeting a target set under this Part, or\n(ii) reflect the Code prepared by the Welsh Ministers on describing Welsh language ability under section 6;\n(b) any of the Welsh language promotion standards to facilitate meeting a target set under this Part.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers must—\n(a) consult the Welsh Language Commissioner as part of the review in subsection (1);\n(b) complete the review within the 12-month period starting with the day following publication of the Code under section 7 for the first time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 56(4)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 1.4.2026 by W.S.I. 2026/78, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2025/2/section/4",
    "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."
}