{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2012/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2012/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2012/3095",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-schemes-public-bodies-order-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WELSH LANGUAGE\nMade 13 December 2012\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 14 December 2012\nComing into force 4 January 2013\nWhereas it appears to the Welsh Ministers that the person referred to in this Order is a person exercising functions of a public nature;\nNow, therefore, the Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 6(1)(o) of the Welsh Language Act 1993 and now vested in them hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "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, so far as exercisable 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 transferred to the Welsh Ministers."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2012/3095/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:44:36.444846+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."
}