Comments on: Hain starts New Year as he finished the old one http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2010/01/hain-starts-new-year-as-he-finished-the-old-one.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben Lloyd http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2010/01/hain-starts-new-year-as-he-finished-the-old-one.html/comment-page-1#comment-2979 Ben Lloyd Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:30:43 +0000 http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/?p=2621#comment-2979 The real irony of the Welsh Language LCO is that it could in fact undermine existing legislation by embedding the requirement for a right to a review into the any changes made to the Welsh Language Act, 1993. The requirement for a any subsequent Measure to have an appeal based on "reasonableness" and "proportionality" means that even relatively minor changes, such as increasing the need to have a Welsh Language plan drawn up every 4 years (instead of every 5) would allow each body to request a review. So Plaid Cymru's Welsh Language LCO actually reduces some of the legal protections currently offered to the langauge. I understand that some would consider this a reasonable trade-off for the new powers over Commissioners and official langauge status but ,to be honest, it shouldn't have been beyond the wit of man to draw up an LCO that offered both. The real irony of the Welsh Language LCO is that it could in fact undermine existing legislation by embedding the requirement for a right to a review into the any changes made to the Welsh Language Act, 1993.

The requirement for a any subsequent Measure to have an appeal based on “reasonableness” and “proportionality” means that even relatively minor changes, such as increasing the need to have a Welsh Language plan drawn up every 4 years (instead of every 5) would allow each body to request a review.

So Plaid Cymru’s Welsh Language LCO actually reduces some of the legal protections currently offered to the langauge.

I understand that some would consider this a reasonable trade-off for the new powers over Commissioners and official langauge status but ,to be honest, it shouldn’t have been beyond the wit of man to draw up an LCO that offered both.

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