Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 1 para. 8: words in heading substituted (the amendment coming into force immediately after the end of "the initial period" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) in accordance with art. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I. and see ss. 46, 161(5) of Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)) by The Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1388), arts. 1(2)(3), 3, Sch. 1 para. 141(6)
8(1)Regulations may make provision about the making by the Commissioner of periodic or other reports to the [F2Welsh Ministers]F2 relating to the discharge of his functions.E+W
(2)The regulations may in particular—
(a)specify the contents of a report and the persons to whom copies of a report must be sent;
(b)make provision about the publication of a report.
(3)Subject to sub-paragraph (4), a report made by the Commissioner under the regulations must not—
(a)mention the name of any person, or
(b)include any particulars which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, are likely to identify any person and which, in his opinion, can be omitted without impairing the effectiveness of the report.
(4)Sub-paragraph (3) does not apply if, after taking account of the interests of any persons he thinks appropriate, the Commissioner considers it to be in the public interest to include that information in the report.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1) substituted (the amendment coming into force immediately after the end of "the initial period" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) in accordance with art. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I. and see ss. 46, 161(5) of Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)) by The Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1388), arts. 1(2)(3), 3, Sch. 1 para. 141(7)