PART 2THE WELSH LANGUAGE COMMISSIONER

Functions

5Production of 5-year reports

(1)

The Commissioner must produce, in relation to each reporting period, a report on the position of the Welsh language in that period.

(2)

In this Measure, such a report is referred to as “a 5-year report”.

(3)

If a 5-year report is the first such report to be produced after a census, the report must include the following matters—

(a)

a report of the results of the census so far as they relate to the Welsh language;

(b)

an assessment of the implications of those results for the position of the Welsh language.

(4)

Subsection (3) does not limit the matters which the Commissioner may include in any 5-year report.

(5)

In this section—

census” (“cyfrifiad”) means a census taken under the Census Act 1920 in Wales (whether or not the census is also taken elsewhere than in Wales);

reporting period” (“cyfnod adrodd”) means—

(a)

the period that begins with the day on which section 2 comes into force and ends with 31 December 2015; and

(b)

each successive period of 5 years.