Title, commencement, application and interpretation
1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Welsh Language Standards (No. 6) Regulations 2017.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 7 February 2017.
(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
(4) In these Regulations—
a “body” (“corff”) means a person referred to in regulation 3;
an “individual” (“unigolyn”) means a member of the public or a student;
a “member of staff” (“aelod o staff”) means an employee of a body or an individual working for a body (and “staff” (“staff”) must be construed accordingly).
(5) In these Regulations—
(a)references to any activity being carried out by a body, or to any service being provided by a body, are to be read as including a reference to that activity being carried out on the body’s behalf or to that service being provided on the body’s behalf by a third party under arrangements made between the third party and the body;
(b)accordingly, unless a compliance notice provides to the contrary, a body will have failed to comply with a standard in respect of an activity or service it has arranged to be carried out or provided by a third party if that activity or service has not been carried out or provided in accordance with the standard.
(6) Nothing in these Regulations requires a body to comply with a standard in respect of an activity carried out by it or a service provided by it where it is carrying out that activity or providing that service on behalf of a third party under arrangements made between it and the third party.