{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2001/2550",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WELSH LANGUAGE\nMade 12th July 2001\nComing into force 1st August 2001\nWhereas it appears to the National Assembly for Wales that the persons referred to in the Schedule to this Order are persons exercising functions of a public nature;\nNow therefore the National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by section 6(1) of the Welsh Language Act 1993 and now vested in the National Assembly, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The National Assembly for Wales(Transfer of Functions) Order 1999. (S.I. 1999/672)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/2550/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:16:05.687881+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."
}