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Welsh Language Act 1993
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- Act modified by 2011 nawm 1 Sch. 12 para. 4
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- S.I. 2006/1014 art. 2(a) Sch. 1 para. 11(v) commences (2005 c. 4)
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- S.I. 2008/1886 art. 2(f) commences (2006 c. 46)
- S.I. 2008/2860 art. 4 Sch. 1 commences (2006 c. 46)
- S.I. 2012/969 art. 2 commences ()
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34 Notices.E+W+S+N.I.
(1)Any notice or other document required or authorised to be given or sent to the Board or to a public body under Part II of this Act may be sent by post to the principal office of the Board or of that public body.
(2)Any notice required or authorised to be given to a member of the Board under Schedule 1 to this Act may be sent by post to the last known address of the member.
(3)This section shall not be taken to exclude any method of giving or sending a notice or other document not expressly provided for by this section.
35 Repeals and consequential amendments.E+W+S+N.I.
(1)The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Act (which include spent enactments) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(2)The M1Companies Act 1985 (Welsh Language Accounts) Regulations 1992 are hereby revoked.
(3)F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)In the Appendix of forms in Schedule 1 to the Representation of the M2People Act 1983, in paragraph 2(a) of the directions as to printing the ballot paper, for the words from “except” to “and the” there shall be substituted the words “ except the direction to vote for one candidate only and the ”.
(5)For section 22 of the Representation of the M3People Act 1985 (power to prescribe Welsh version of forms specified in certain rules and regulations) there shall be substituted—
“22 Welsh forms
Section 26 of the Welsh Language Act 1993 (power to prescribe Welsh forms of documents or words specified in Acts), except subsection (3), shall apply in relation to regulations made under the principal Act or this Act and rules made (or having effect as if made) under section 36 of the principal Act as it applies in relation to Acts of Parliament.”
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F1S. 35(3) repealed (24.10.2002) by European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 (c. 24), ss. 16, 18(2), Sch. 4
Commencement Information
I1S. 35 wholly in force; S. 35 partly in force at 21.12.1993 see s. 36(1); S. 35(2) wholly in force at 1.2.1994 by S.I. 1994/115, art. 2(2)
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36 Commencement.E+W+S+N.I.
(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, this Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.
(2)Sections 30, 31 and 35(2), and the repeals made by this Act in the M4Companies Act 1985, shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.
(3)An order under subsection (2) above may include such transitional provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient.
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37 Short title.E+W+S+N.I.
This Act may be cited as the Welsh Language Act 1993.
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