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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-standards-no-8-regulations-2022/schedule-2/part-1",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2022/796",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Language Standards (No. 8) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-standards-no-8-regulations-2022",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "THE STANDARDS",
  "text": "1\nStandards relating to considering the effects of a body’s policy decisions on the Welsh language\nStandard 42:\nWhen you formulate a new policy, or review or revise an existing policy, you must consider what effects, if any (whether positive or adverse), the policy decision would have on—\n(a) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and\n(b) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.\nStandard 43:\nWhen you formulate a new policy, or review or revise an existing policy, you must consider how the policy could be formulated (or how an existing policy could be changed) so that the policy decision would have positive effects, or increased positive effects, on—\n(a) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and\n(b) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.\nStandard 44:\nWhen you formulate a new policy, or review or revise an existing policy, you must consider how the policy could be formulated (or how an existing policy could be changed) so that the policy decision would not have adverse effects, or so that it would have decreased adverse effects, on—\n(a) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and\n(b) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.\nStandard 45:\nWhen you publish a consultation document which relates to a policy decision, the document must consider, and seek views on, the effects (whether positive or adverse) that the policy decision under consideration would have on—\n(a) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and\n(b) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.\nStandard 46:\nWhen you publish a consultation document which relates to a policy decision the document must consider, and seek views on, how the policy under consideration could be formulated or revised so that it would have positive effects, or increased positive effects, on—\n(a) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and\n(b) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.\nStandard 47:\nWhen you publish a consultation document which relates to a policy decision the document must consider, and seek views on, how the policy under consideration could be formulated or revised so that it would not have adverse effects, or so that it would have decreased adverse effects, on—\n(a) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and\n(b) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.\nStandard 48:\nWhen you commission or undertake research that is intended to assist you to make a policy decision, you must ensure that the research considers what effects, if any (and whether positive or adverse), the policy decision under consideration would have on—\n(a) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and\n(b) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.\nStandard 49:\nWhen you commission or undertake research that is intended to assist you to make a policy decision, you must ensure that the research considers how the policy decision under consideration could be made so that it would have positive effects, or so that it would have increased positive effects, on—\n(a) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and\n(b) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.\nStandard 50:\nWhen you commission or undertake research that is intended to assist you to make a policy decision, you must ensure that the research considers how the policy decision under consideration could be made so that it would not have adverse effects, or so that it would have decreased adverse effects, on—\n(a) opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language, and\n(b) treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/796/schedule/2/part/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:06:26.935430+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."
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