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Meeting: 02/02/2012 - Senedd Commission (Item 4)
4 Update on Wales Legislation Online
Supporting documents:
- AC(4)2012(1) Paper 4 - Update on Commission financial support for Wales Legislation Online
Minutes:
The Commission considered the
future of its financial support for the Wales Legislation Online website, in
the light of: the objectives set by the Commission in 2008 and in particular
progress towards a “Welsh statute book”; the fact that the website had not been
able to secure sufficient long-term funding from other sources to enable
substantial progress in that direction to be made, and; the Welsh Government’s
alternative plans for improving the accessibility of Welsh law, as announced by
the Counsel General on the 5 October 2011.
The Commission noted the praise
which the website had attracted from a wider range of bodies over the years and
agreed that it had made a useful contribution to public understanding of
devolution over the last four years, with Commission support. However, as far as the future was concerned
the Commission felt that its contribution to improving public accessibility to
Welsh law could best be achieved by developing the information provided through
the Assembly’s own website. The
Commission asked to be kept informed on progress in this direction.
The Commission decided not to
continue its financial support for Wales Legislation Online and authorised the
Chief Legal Adviser to take the necessary steps to give effect to this decision
as soon as was reasonably possible.