Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011

11 Powers

(1) The Commissioner may do anything that he or she thinks to be appropriate in connection with any of his or her functions.

(2) That includes, but is not limited to, any of the following things—

(a) making grants and loans and giving guarantees;

(b) charging for the provision of advice or other services;

(c) paying third parties for the provision of advice or other services;

(d) accepting gifts of money or other property;

(e) acquiring or disposing of any property or right.

(3) Subsection (2) is subject to subsections (4) to (6).

(4) The Commissioner must not—

(a) make a grant or loan,

(b) give a guarantee, or

(c) acquire or dispose of any interest in land,

except with the approval of the Welsh Ministers.

(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to anything done under section 9.

(6) The Commissioner’s power to charge for the provision of advice or services is limited to charging such amounts as the Commissioner thinks appropriate to recover the actual or estimated costs to the Commissioner of providing that advice or those services.