Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022

Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to make provision about national and cultural identity and language in Northern Ireland.
Citation2022 c. 45
Introduced byShailesh Vara (Commons)
Lord Caine, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Lords)
Territorial extent Northern Ireland
Dates
Royal assent6 December 2022
CommencementSee section 10
Status: Unknown
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 (c. 45) is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom providing "official recognition of the status of the Irish language" in Northern Ireland, with Ulster Scots being an officially recognised minority language.

The act was first envisioned as an Irish Language Act (Irish: Acht na Gaeilge) of the Northern Ireland Assembly that would give the Irish language equal status to English in the region, similar to that of the Welsh language in Wales under the Welsh Language Act 1993.