{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-wales-measure-2011/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-wales-measure-2011/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "mwa/2011/1",
  "legislation_title": "Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-wales-measure-2011",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Production of 5-year reports",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioner must produce, in relation to each reporting period, a report on the position of the Welsh language in that period.\n(2) In this Measure, such a report is referred to as “a 5-year report”.\n(3) If a 5-year report is the first such report to be produced after a census, the report must include the following matters—\n(a) a report of the results of the census so far as they relate to the Welsh language;\n(b) an assessment of the implications of those results for the position of the Welsh language.\n(4) Subsection (3) does not limit the matters which the Commissioner may include in any 5-year report.\n(5) In this section—\n“census” (“cyfrifiad”) means a census taken under the Census Act 1920 in Wales (whether or not the census is also taken elsewhere than in Wales);\n“reporting period” (“cyfnod adrodd”) means—\n(a)the period that begins with the day on which section 2 comes into force and ends with 31 December 2015; and\n(b)each successive period of 5 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/969, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2011/1/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:41.555934+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."
}