Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011

48 Giving compliance notices to contractors

(1) This section applies (in addition to sections 45 and 46) in relation to a qualifying person who provides the public with services (the “relevant services”) provided under an agreement, or in accordance with arrangements, made with a public authority (the “relevant contract”).

(2) A compliance notice given to the qualifying person may set out, or refer to, a particular standard (the “relevant standard”) in relation to the provision of the relevant services under the relevant contract only if—

(a) the public authority is required to comply with the relevant standard in providing the public with the relevant services (or would be so required if it provided the public with those services),

(b) the relevant contract was entered into on or after the public authority’s imposition day, and

(c) the qualifying person’s imposition day falls on or after the public authority’s imposition day.

(3) The Commissioner must secure that the requirement for the qualifying person to comply with the relevant standard (which arises by virtue of the compliance notice being given in accordance with subsection (2)) is the same as, or no greater than, the requirement for the public authority to comply with the standard.

(4) Expressions used in this section and in Schedule 8 have the same meanings in this section as in Schedule 8.

(5) In this section—

• “public authority’s imposition day” (“diwrnod gosod yr awdurdod cyhoeddus”) means the day, or the earliest of the days, on which the public authority is required to comply with the relevant standard;

• “qualifying person’s imposition day” (“diwrnod gosod y person neilltuedig”) means the day, or the earliest of the days, stated in the compliance notice given to the qualifying person as a day when the qualifying person is to be required to comply with the relevant standard in relation to the provision of the relevant services under the relevant contract.