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- (6) The Scheme must include provision relating to the receipt, investigation and consideration of complaints of failures to give effect to provisions of the Scheme.
- (7) The Scheme must identify those services provided or to be provided in the official languages and explain how those services are to be provided in accordance with paragraph 8(5).
- (8) The Assembly Commission must, in respect of each financial year, lay before the Assembly a report setting out how the Commission has, during the year in question, given effect to the Scheme.
- (9) The report prepared by the Assembly Commission under sub-paragraph (8) must include—
- (a) whether and to what degree the services referred to in sub- paragraph (7) have been provided, and
- (b) if applicable, the reasons why the Commission has not provided any of the services referred to in sub-paragraph (7) in both official languages.
- (10) The Assembly Commission—
- (a) must review the Scheme as soon as is reasonably practicable after each ordinary general election, or after an extraordinary general election to which section 5(5) applies, and
- (b) may, at any time, adopt a new Scheme or an amendment to the existing Scheme.
- (11) The Assembly Commission may not adopt a Scheme, or an amendment to a Scheme, unless (whether before or after the coming into force of this paragraph)—
- (a) a draft of the Scheme (or of the amendment) has been—
- (i) published, and
- (ii) laid before the Assembly,
- (b) the Assembly Commission has given—
- (i) those persons whom the Assembly Commission considers it appropriate to consult in relation to the Scheme, and
- (ii) the Assembly,
- reasonable opportunity to make representations in relation to the draft,
- (c) the Assembly Commission has considered any representations made about the draft Scheme (or draft amendment) by—
- (i) the persons consulted under sub-paragraph (b)(i), and
- (ii) the Assembly, and
- (d) the Scheme (or the amendment) incorporating such modifications as the Assembly Commission may, having considered such representations, make, has been laid before and approved by resolution of, the Assembly.
- (12) The Assembly Commission must give effect to the Scheme.”
