{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-commissioner-appointment-regulations-2011/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-commissioner-appointment-regulations-2011/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/1593",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Language Commissioner (Appointment) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-commissioner-appointment-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Establishment of a selection panel",
  "text": "(1) Upon being requested to do so by the First Minister the Welsh Ministers must convene a selection panel for the purposes of paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 1 to the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a selection panel must comprise of—\n(a) a member of staff of the Welsh Assembly Government;\n(b) a person accredited by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments to act as an independent appointments assessor;\n(c) a person who appears to the Welsh Ministers to possess relevant experience; and\n(d) a member of the National Assembly for Wales nominated by a relevant committee.\n(3) Where a relevant committee either:\n(a) declines to make a nomination; or\n(b) fails to make a nomination within a reasonable time,\nparagraph (2)(d) of this regulation does not apply.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“relevant committee” (“pwyllgor perthnasol”) means a committee of the National Assembly for Wales invited by the Welsh Ministers to make a nomination;\n“relevant experience” (“profiad perthnasol”) means experience of the promotion of the use of Welsh and/or another language.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/1593/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:50:16.944884+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."
}