PART 1ACCESSIBILITY OF WELSH LAW
2Programme to improve accessibility of Welsh law
1
The Welsh Ministers and the Counsel General must prepare a programme setting out what they intend to do to improve the accessibility of Welsh law.
2
A programme must be prepared for each term of F1Senedd Cymru that begins after this section comes into force.
3
The programme must include proposed activities that are intended to—
a
contribute to an ongoing process of consolidating and codifying Welsh law;
b
maintain the form of Welsh law (once codified);
c
promote awareness and understanding of Welsh law;
d
facilitate use of the Welsh language.
4
The programme may also include proposed activities—
a
that may be undertaken in collaboration with the Law Commission (in accordance with the Law Commissions Act 1965 (c. 22)), or
b
of any other kind the Welsh Ministers and the Counsel General consider appropriate.
5
The Counsel General must lay a copy of the programme before F3Senedd Cymru within 6 months of the appointment of a First Minister after a general election held under Part 1 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).
6
The Welsh Ministers and the Counsel General may at any time revise the programme, and if they do so the Counsel General must lay a copy of the revised programme before F2Senedd Cymru.
7
The Counsel General must report annually to F4Senedd Cymru on progress made under the programme.
8
In subsection (3), codifying Welsh law includes—
a
adopting a structure for Welsh law that improves its accessibility;
b
organising and publishing consolidated Welsh law according to that structure.