Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011

Standards reports

64 Standards report

(1) After carrying out a standards investigation, the Commissioner must produce a standards report.

(2) A standards report is a document that sets out—

(a) the conclusions of the standards investigation, and

(b) the Commissioner’s reasons for reaching those conclusions.

(3) If—

(a) the conclusions of the investigation are (in whole or in part) that any standards should be specifically applicable to P, and

(b) any or all of those standards are not specified by the Welsh Ministers under section 26(1),

the report must set out the standards that are not specified.

(4) As soon as reasonably practicable after preparing a standards report, the Commissioner—

(a) must send a copy of the report to—

(i) each relevant person,

(ii) the Advisory Panel,

(iii) each person who participated in the Commissioner’s consultation under section 63, and

(iv) the Welsh Ministers, and

(b) may send a copy of the report to any other person whom the Commissioner considers to have an interest in the report.

(5) In this section “relevant person” means—

(a) in the case of a standards investigation relating to a particular person, that person;

(b) in the case of a standards investigation relating to a group of persons, such persons—

(i) who appear to the Commissioner to be members of the group, and

(ii) to whom the Commissioner thinks it appropriate to give a copy of the report.