{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-skills-act-2008/section-156",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-skills-act-2008/section-156.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/25",
  "legislation_title": "Education and Skills Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-skills-act-2008",
  "path": "section/156",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "156",
  "heading": "National Curriculum for England: duty to implement assessment arrangements",
  "text": "(1) In section 88 of the Education Act 2002 (c. 32) (implementation of the National Curriculum for England in schools), in the existing provision (which becomes subsection (1)), at the end insert— “ This subsection does not apply in relation to assessment arrangements. ”\n(2) After that subsection insert—\n“(1A) In relation to any maintained school—\n(a) the local authority and the governing body must exercise their functions with a view to securing, and\n(b) the head teacher must secure,\nthat the assessment arrangements specified for the time being in the National Curriculum for England are implemented.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), Sch. 2 para. 15(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/156",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:44.607074+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."
}