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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/early-years-foundation-stage-exemptions-from-learning-and-development-requirements-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/early-years-foundation-stage-exemptions-from-learning-and-development-requirements-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1743",
  "legislation_title": "The Early Years Foundation Stage (Exemptions from Learning and Development Requirements) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/early-years-foundation-stage-exemptions-from-learning-and-development-requirements-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Power of the Secretary of State to confer exemptions",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may direct, in respect of a particular early years provider, that the learning and development requirements apply with modifications, or do not apply—\n(a) in the circumstances prescribed in regulation 3, and to the extent prescribed in regulation 4; or\n(b) in the circumstances prescribed in regulation 5, and to the extent prescribed in regulation 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 39(1)(a) of the 2006 Act for the meaning of the “learning and development requirements”. Section 41 of that Act makes further provision about the content of the learning and development requirements."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/2463",
      "affecting_title": "The Early Years Foundation Stage (Exemptions from Learning and Development Requirements) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1743/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:28:46.101787+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."
}