Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011

5 Production of 5-year reports E+W

(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.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 5 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/969, art. 2(c)