Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011

118 Reports

(1) This section applies in any case where an application is made under section 111.

(2) The Commissioner may produce, and give the Welsh Ministers, a report on—

(a) the application, and

(b) the action taken by the Commissioner in response to the application.

(3) The Commissioner must give copies of any such report to P and D.

(4) The Commissioner may publish—

(a) a report given to the Welsh Ministers under subsection (2),

(b) a version of such a report, or

(c) another document that relates (whether wholly or partly) to the subject matter of such a report,

(a “public document”), but only if the following conditions are met.

(5) The first condition is that the Commissioner—

(a) notifies P and D of the intention to publish a public document, and

(b) so far as it is practicable, gives P, D, or any other person the Commissioner considers appropriate, the opportunity to provide the Commissioner with views about publication of a public document.

(6) The second condition is that—

(a) P and D agree to the publication of a public document, or

(b) the Commissioner considers that it is in the public interest to publish a public document.

(7) In considering whether it is in the public interest to publish a public document, the Commissioner must take account of, amongst other things—

(a) the interests of P and D, and

(b) the interests of any other persons which the Commissioner thinks it is appropriate to take account of.

(8) In relation to any application in which the Commissioner determines that D has not interfered with P’s freedom to undertake a Welsh communication, a public document must not identify D.