The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2016

Consequential amendments to the Government of Wales Act 2006

2.  The Government of Wales Act 2006(1) is amended as follows—

(a) in section 78—

(i) omit subsections (2) and (3);

(ii) in subsection (4)(a) omit “both” and “and the Welsh language scheme”;

(iii) in subsection (4)(b) for “scheme or revise them” substitute “revise it”;

(iv) in subsections (5), (6) and (7) in each place it occurs omit “or scheme”;

(v) in subsection (6) omit “and the Welsh language scheme”;

(vi) in subsection (6)(b) omit “or the Welsh language scheme”; and

(vii) for subsection (8) substitute—

“(8) After each financial year the Welsh Ministers must publish a report of how the proposals set out in the Welsh language strategy were implemented in that financial year and how effective their implementation has been in promoting and facilitating the use of the Welsh language and must lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.”; and

(b) in paragraph 48 of Schedule 11—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (2); and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3) for “Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) do” substitute “Sub-paragraph (1) does”.

(1)

2006 c. 32.