PART 2THE WELSH LANGUAGE COMMISSIONER

Functions

I15Production 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—

    1. a

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

    2. b

      each successive period of 5 years.