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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-wales-measure-2011/section-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-wales-measure-2011/section-62.json",
  "legislation": "mwa/2011/1",
  "legislation_title": "Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-wales-measure-2011",
  "path": "section/62",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Power to carry out standards investigations",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioner may carry out standards investigations.\n(2) But the Commissioner may not carry out a standards investigation unless he or she has given an exploration notice to each relevant person, at least 14 days before beginning the investigation.\n(3) An exploration notice is a notice in writing which—\n(a) states that the Commissioner is proposing to carry out a standards investigation, and\n(b) specifies the subject matter of the standards investigation.\n(4) In this section “relevant person” means—\n(a) in the case of a standards investigation relating to a particular person, that person;\n(b) in the case of a standards investigation relating to a group of persons, such persons—\n(i) who appear to the Commissioner to be members of the group, and\n(ii) to whom the Commissioner thinks it appropriate to give exploration notices.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 62 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/969, art. 2(i)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2011/1/section/62",
    "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."
}