{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/early-years-foundation-stage-exemptions-from-learning-and-development-requirements-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/early-years-foundation-stage-exemptions-from-learning-and-development-requirements-regulations-2008/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Prescribed circumstances relating to temporary inability to deliver the learning and development requirements",
  "text": "The circumstances referred to in regulation 2(b) are that—\n(a) the early years provider has requested a direction under regulation 2;\n(b) the early years provider is, or will be, temporarily unable to secure, from a particular day (“the relevant day”), that the early years provision meets one or more of the learning and development requirements;\n(c) it appears to the Secretary of State that the early years provider will be able to secure that the early years provision meets the learning and development requirements within a period of twelve months beginning with the relevant day; and\n(d) the early years provider has sought the views of—\n(i) the parents of children for whom the early years provision is provided, and\n(ii) the relevant local authority,\nas to whether the direction should be requested.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "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/5",
    "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."
}