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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assessment-arrangements-for-key-stage-3-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-5",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/422",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
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  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty to carry out assessment",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of the principal of the school to make arrangements for an assessment of each pupil’s attainment in the relevant subjects specified in paragraph (2) to be carried out in accordance with the provisions of this Order.\n(2) Each pupil shall be assessed in English, Mathematics and Science at or near the end of the third key stage for the purpose of ascertaining what he has achieved in relation to the attainment targets for that key stage.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in operation at 20.10.1997, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/457",
      "affecting_title": "Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/457",
      "affecting_title": "Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    },
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      "affecting": "nisr/1998/457",
      "affecting_title": "Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stage 3) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/422/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:11.678086+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."
}