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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-commissioner-appointment-regulations-2011/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2011/1593",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Language Commissioner (Appointment) Regulations 2011",
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  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Principles to be followed",
  "text": "In appointing the Commissioner the First Minister must follow the principles of ministerial responsibility, merit, independent scrutiny, equal opportunities, probity, openness and transparency and proportionality taking into account the description of those principles in the Commissioner for Public Appointments' Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies of August 2009.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/1593/regulation/4",
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  "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."
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