The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2008

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 1890 (W.179)

WELSH LANGUAGE

The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2008

Made

16 July 2008

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

17 July 2008

Coming into force

11 August 2008

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 6(1) of the Welsh Language Act 1993(1) and now vested in them(2) hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  This Order is called the Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2008 and comes into force on 11 August 2008.

Specification of Public Bodies

2.  The persons referred to in the Schedule to this Order are specified for the purposes of Part II of the Welsh Language Act 1993.

Rhodri Glyn Thomas

Minister for Heritage, one of the Welsh Ministers

16 July 2008

Article 2

THE SCHEDULE English name or description

• Auditor General for Wales

• National Policing Improvement Agency

• Security Industry Authority

• Olympic Delivery Authority

• Bank of England

• Independent Police Complaints Commission

• Competition Commission

• Sustainable Development Commission

• Electoral Commission

• Gambling Commission

• National Lottery Commission

• Sector Skills Councils

• General Chiropractic Council

• UK Sports Council

• Consumer Council for Water

• Welsh Books Council

• General Optical Council

• General Osteopathic Council

• British Council

• Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals

• Finance Wales p.l.c.

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

• FFORWM

• Big Lottery Fund

• Royal Mail Group p.l.c.

• National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts

• Pensions Regulator

• Community Development Foundation

• Office of Communications

• Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales

• Local Government Data Unit — Wales

• The Energy Saving Trust Limited

• The Carbon Trust

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under Part II of the Welsh Language Act 1993 (“the Act”) the Welsh Language Board may give notice in writing to any public body to produce a Welsh Language Scheme. Section 6 of the Act lists various public bodies for the purposes of Part II of the Act and provides that the Secretary of State (now the Welsh Ministers) may specify further public bodies for those purposes.

This Order specifies further public bodies for the purposes of Part II of the Act.

Five previous Orders have been made under section 6 of the Act:

The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1898);

The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1100);

The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2550 (W.215));

The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1441 (W.145)); and

The Welsh Language Schemes (Public Bodies) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/71 (W.7)).

(1)

1993 (c. 38).

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), see the reference to the Welsh Language Act 1993 in Schedule 1. By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) those functions are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.