Commentary on Sections Section 119 – Annual report to Welsh Ministers
249.This section lists the types of information relating to applications to investigate alleged interferences that must be included in the Commissioner’s annual report, required under section 18 of the Measure.
250.Subsection (1)(c) requires the Commissioner to give a view on the adequacy and effectiveness of the law in protecting the freedom of persons in Wales wishing to use the Welsh language with one another.
251.Subsection (2) lists the matters the Commissioner must consider in formulating a view for this purpose, although he or she is not limited to those matters.
252.Subsection (3) enables the Welsh Ministers to make provision about the reports in regulations.
253.The effect of subsection (4) is that if the Commissioner’s annual report referred to any cases in which he or she had decided that D did not interfere with the freedom to use Welsh as defined in section 113, the annual report must not identify D.