{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2008/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2008/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2008/1890",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WELSH LANGUAGE\nMade 16 July 2008\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 17 July 2008\nComing into force 11 August 2008\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 6(1) of the Welsh Language Act 1993 and now vested in them hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 (c. 38)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), see the reference to the Welsh Language Act 1993 in Schedule 1. By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) those functions are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/1890/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:46:13.242820+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."
}