{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2004/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2004/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2004/71",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WELSH LANGUAGE\nMade 14th January 2004\nComing into force 1st February 2004\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;\nAnd whereas it appears to the National Assembly for Wales that the persons referred to in the Schedule to this Order are persons all or substantially all of whose activities are conducted under an agreement, or in accordance with arrangements made with a person acting as servant or agent of the Crown;\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": "1993 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "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/2004/71/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:09:40.923601+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."
}