{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-no-2-regulations-2022/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-no-2-regulations-2022/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2022/679",
  "legislation_title": "The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) (No. 2) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-no-2-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Education Act 1996;\n“the 2021 Act” (“Deddf 2021”) means the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021;\n“funded non-maintained nursery education” (“addysg feithrin a gyllidir ond nas cynhelir”) has the meaning given to it in section 80(1)(a) of the 2021 Act;\n“head teacher” (“pennaeth”) has the meaning given to it in section 579(1) of the 1996 Act;\n“maintained nursery school” (“ysgol feithrin a gynhelir”) has the meaning given to it in section 79(1)(b) of the 2021 Act;\n“maintained school” (“ysgol a gynhelir”) has the meaning given to it in section 79(1)(a) of the 2021 Act;\n“nursery education” (“addysg feithrin”) means education provided to children or pupils below compulsory school age—\n(a)in a maintained school or a maintained nursery school, or\n(b)by the provider of funded non-maintained nursery education;\n“pupil” (“disgybl”) has the meaning given to it in section 3 of the 1996 Act;\n“reception year” (“blwyddyn derbyn”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 5;\n“relevant curriculum” (“cwricwlwm perthnasol”) has the meaning given to it in section 56(5) of the 2021 Act;\n“setting” (“lleoliad”) means—\n(a)a maintained school,\n(b)a maintained nursery school,\n(c)a provider of funded non-maintained nursery education, and\n(d)a pupil referral unit;\n“year 1” (“blwyddyn 1”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 6;\n“year 3” (“blwyddyn 3”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 8;\n“year 4” (“blwyddyn 4”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 9;\n“year 5” (“blwyddyn 5”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 10;\n“year 6” (“blwyddyn 6”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 11;\n“year 7” (“blwyddyn 7”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 12;\n“year 8” (“blwyddyn 8”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 13;\n“year 9” (“blwyddyn 9”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 14;\n“year 10” (“blwyddyn 10”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 15;\n“year group” (“grŵp blwyddyn”) means a group of children or pupils at a setting the majority of whom will, in a particular academic year, attain the same age.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.9.2022) by The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) (No. 3) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/758), regs. 1(2), 21(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 inserted (1.9.2022) by The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) (No. 3) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/758), regs. 1(2), 21(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.9.2022, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Subsection (1) was amended by section 71(1), and paragraph 9 of Schedule 6 to, the Education Act 1997 and subsection (1) and (1A) were further amended by section 215(1) and paragraph 34 of Schedule 21 to the Education Act 2002 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/679/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:06:39.745608+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}