{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-no-3-regulations-2022/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-no-3-regulations-2022/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2022/758",
  "legislation_title": "The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) (No. 3) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-no-3-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) 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“academic year” (“blwyddyn academaidd”) means the period of 12 months beginning on 1 September;\n“child” (“plentyn”) has the meaning given to it in section 579(1) of the 1996 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“nursery year” (“blwyddyn meithrin”) means a year group in which the majority of the pupils attain the age of 4;\n“pupil” (“disgybl”) has the meaning given to it in section 3 of the 1996 Act;\n“pupil referral unit” (“uned cyfeirio disgyblion”) has the meaning given to it in section 81(1) of the 2021 Act;\n“provider of funded non-maintained nursery education” (“darparwr addysg feithrin a gyllidir ond nas cynhelir”) has the meaning given to it in section 80(2)(a) of the 2021 Act;\n“reception year” (“blwyddyn derbyn”) means a year group in which the majority of the 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 nursery school,\n(b) a maintained school,\n(c) a provider of funded non-maintained nursery education,\n(d) a pupil referral unit, and\n(e) the provision of teaching and learning for a child otherwise than at a pupil referral unit by virtue of arrangements made under section 19A of the 1996 Act;\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 11” (“blwyddyn 11”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 16;\n“year 12” (“blwyddyn 12”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 17;\n“year 13” (“blwyddyn 13”) means a year group in which the majority of pupils attain the age of 18”; and\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.\n(2) Expressions used in these Regulations and in the 2021 Act have the same meaning as in that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "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 51(1) of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 7 to, the Education Act 1997 (c. 44) and subsections (1) and (1A) were further amended by section 215(1) of, 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/2022/758/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:06:32.846111+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."
}