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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-standards-no-4-regulations-2016/schedule-5/part-2",
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  "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/5/part/2",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "POLICY MAKING STANDARDS",
  "text": "7\nA body publicising policy making standards\nStandard 155:\nYou must ensure that a document which records the policy making standards with which you are under a duty to comply, and the extent to which you are under a duty to comply with those standards, is available on your website.\n8\nA body publishing a complaints procedure\nStandard 156:\nYou must—\n(a) ensure that you have a complaints procedure that deals with the following matters—\n(i) how you intend to deal with complaints relating to your compliance with the policy making standards with which you are under a duty to comply, and\n(ii) how you will provide training for your staff in relation to dealing with those complaints, and\n(b) publish a document that records that procedure on your website.\n9\nA body publishing arrangements for oversight\nStandard 157:\nYou must—\n(a) ensure that you have arrangements for overseeing the way you comply with the policy making standards with which you are under a duty to comply, and\n(b) publish a document that records those arrangements on your website.\n10\nA body producing an annual report regarding policy making standards\nStandard 158:\n(1) You must produce a report (an “annual report”), in Welsh, in relation to each financial year, which deals with the way in which you have complied with the policy making standards with which you were under a duty to comply during that year.\n(2) The annual report must include the number of complaints you received during the year which related to your compliance with the policy making standards with which you were under a duty to comply.\n(3) You must publish the annual report no later than 6 months following the end of the financial year to which the report relates.\n(4) You must publicise the fact that you have published an annual report.\n(5) You must ensure that a current copy of your annual report is available on your website.\n11\nA body publicising the way it intends to comply with policy making standards\nStandard 159:\nYou must publish a document on your website which explains how you intend to comply with the policy making standards with which you are under a duty to comply.\n12\nA body providing information to the Welsh Language Commissioner\nStandard 160:\nYou must provide any information requested by the Welsh Language Commissioner which relates to compliance with the policy making standards with which you are under a duty to comply.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt. 2 in force at 22.3.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/405/schedule/5/part/2",
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  },
  "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."
}