2 Amendment to Schedule 2 to the Act (Assembly Commission)

Section 2 Amendment to Schedule 2 to the Act (Assembly Commission)

National Assembly for Wales (Official Languages) Act 2012 (2012 anaw 1) | Legislation

2  Amendment to Schedule 2 to the Act (Assembly Commission)

(1)     Paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Act (Principles in accordance with which functions are to be exercised) is amended as follows.

(2)     For sub-paragraph (3), substitute—

“(3)     The Assembly Commission must, in the exercise of its functions—

(a)     treat the official languages of the Assembly on a basis of equality, and

(b)     make arrangements for enabling effect to be given to section 35(1), (1A), (1B) and (1C).

(4)     The Assembly Commission must—

(a)     adopt, and

(b)     publish,

a scheme, to be known as the Assembly Commission's Official Languages Scheme (“the Scheme”), specifying the measures which it proposes to take in order to comply with its duties under subparagraph (3).

(5)     The Scheme must include (amongst other things) provision about—

(a)     simultaneous interpretation from one official language into theother—

(i)     in all Assembly proceedings,

(ii)     in

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