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The Welsh Language Standards (No. 2) Regulations 2016

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Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Welsh Language Standards (No. 2) Regulations 2016.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 16 February 2016.

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

(4) In these Regulations—

a “body” (“corff”) means a person listed in Schedule 6;

an “individual” (“unigolyn”) means a member of the public;

a “member of staff” (“aelod o staff”) means an employee of a body or an individual working for a body but not a person appointed to a body by the Welsh Ministers, a Minister of the Crown or Her Majesty (and “staff” (“staff”) must be construed accordingly).

(5) In these Regulations—

(a)references to any activity being carried out by a body, or to any service being provided by a body, are to be read as including a reference to that activity being carried out on the body’s behalf or to that service being provided on the body’s behalf by a third party under arrangements made between the third party and the body;

(b)accordingly, unless a compliance notice provides to the contrary, a body will have failed to comply with a standard in respect of an activity or service it has arranged to be carried out or provided by a third party if that activity or service has not been carried out or provided in accordance with the standard.

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