{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-standards-no-4-regulations-2016/schedule-4/part-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-standards-no-4-regulations-2016/schedule-4/part-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2016/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Language Standards (No. 4) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-standards-no-4-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/4/part/1",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "THE STANDARDS",
  "text": "1\nStandards relating to a body keeping records\nStandard 140:\nYou must keep a record, in relation to each financial year, of the number of complaints you receive relating to your compliance with standards.\nStandard 141:\nYou must keep a copy of any written complaint that you receive that relates to your compliance with the standards with which you are under a duty to comply.\nStandard 142:\nYou must keep a copy of any written complaint that you receive that relates to the Welsh language (whether or not that complaint relates to the standards with which you are under a duty to comply).\nStandard 143:\nYou must keep a record of the steps that you have taken in order to ensure compliance with the policy making standards with which you are under a duty to comply.\nStandard 144:\nYou must keep a record (following assessments of your employees’ Welsh language skills made in accordance with standard 121), of the number of employees who have Welsh language skills at the end of each financial year and, where you have that information, you must keep a record of the skill level of those employees.\nStandard 145:\nYou must keep a record, for each financial year of—\n(a) the number of members of staff who attended training courses provided in Welsh (in accordance with standard 122), and\n(b) if a Welsh version of a course was provided in accordance with standard 122, the percentage of the total number of staff attending the course who attended that version.\nStandard 146:\nYou must keep a record of the number of members of staff who wear a badge (made available to them in accordance with standard 130) at the end of each financial year.\nStandard 147:\nYou must keep a copy of every assessment that you carry out (in accordance with standard 131) in respect of the Welsh language skills that may be needed in relation to a new or vacant post.\nStandard 148:\nYou must keep a record, in relation to each financial year, of the number of new and vacant posts which were categorised (in accordance with standard 131) as posts where—\n(a) Welsh language skills are essential;\n(b) Welsh language skills need to be learnt when appointed to the post;\n(c) Welsh language skills are desirable; or\n(ch) Welsh language skills are not necessary.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 Pt. 1 in force at 22.3.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/405/schedule/4/part/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:22.230522+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."
}