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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-individual-pupils-achievements-information-wales-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/382",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-individual-pupils-achievements-information-wales-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“attendance record” means the record of a pupil’s school attendance contained in the Attendance Register kept in accordance with section 80 of the Education Act 1944 and the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995;\n“class” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(6) of the Act;\n“external marking agency” means a body nominated by Awdurdod Cwricwlwm Ac Asesu Cymru or the Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales and approved by the Secretary of State to mark NC tests;\n“GCE `A' level” and “GCE `AS'” mean General Certificate of Education advanced level and advanced supplementary respectively;\n“GCSE” means General Certificate of Secondary Education;\n“IB” means International Baccalaureate Diploma;\n“key stage” means any of the periods set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) respectively of section 3(3) of the Act, and a reference to the first, second, third or fourth key stage is a reference to the periods set out respectively in the said paragraphs (a) to (d);\n“levels” means the levels of attainment set out in any document of a kind referred to in section 4(4) of the Act the provisions of which have effect, or (as the case may be) have effect as amended, by virtue of any Order made under section 4(2)(a) or (b) of the Act and, unless the context otherwise requires, means such levels determined in accordance with the statutory arrangements;\n“maintained school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 25(1) of the Act;\n“NC tests” , in the case of pupils in the final year of the first key stage, means standard task assessments administered to pupils for the purpose of assessing the level of attainment they have achieved in English, mathematics and (where it is a relevant subject) Welsh and, in relation to pupils in the final year of the second or third key stage “NC tests” and “NC tasks” mean respectively National Curriculum tests and National Curriculum tasks administered to pupils for the purpose of assessing the levels of attainment which they have achieved in any relevant subject;\n“relevant subjects” means in relation to Key Stage 1—\n(a) mathematics and science,\n(b) in the case of schools and classes which are Welsh-speaking, Welsh, and\n(b) in the case of schools and classes which are not Welsh-speaking, English;\nand, in relation to Key Stages 2 and 3, mathematics, science, Welsh and English;\n“school day” means a day on which the school meets;\n“teacher assessment” means assessment of a pupil’s level of attainment in an attainment target or relevant subject by the pupil’s teacher as specified in the statutory arrangements;\n“the statutory arrangements” means assessment arrangements specified by orders made under section 4(2)(c) of the Act; and\n“vocational qualification” includes a credit towards such a qualification.\n(2) In these Regulations a reference to an attainment target or subject from which a pupil is exempt is, respectively, to an attainment target which, or to a subject the National Curriculum for which, does not apply to a pupil by virtue of regulations made under section 17 of the Act, provision made pursuant to section 18 of the Act in the pupil’s statement of special educational needs or a direction given by the headteacher pursuant to regulations made under section 19 of the Act.\n(3) In these Regulations a reference to a school or class which is Welsh-speaking is a reference to a school or class (as the case may be) in which, in relation to pupils in the first key stage, more than one half of the following subjects namely —\n(i) religious education; and\n(ii) the subjects other than English and Welsh which are foundation subjects in relation to pupils at the school or in the class (as the case may be),\nare taught (wholly or partly) in Welsh.\n(4) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a regulation is a reference to a regulation in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation to a paragraph is to a paragraph of the regulation or Schedule in which the reference is made, and any reference to a sub-paragraph is a reference to a sub-paragraph of the paragraph in which the reference is made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1944 c. 31; section 80 was repealed in part and extended by section 4 of and Schedule 2 to the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (c. 40) and was amended by Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20) and paragraph 58 of Schedule 12 to the Education Reform Act 1988. For matters to be prescribed see section 114(1) of the Education Act 1944."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2089."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The authority now known as Awdurdod Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru or the Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales was established by section 14(1)(b) of the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40) under the name of the Curriculum Council for Wales. Its present name was substituted by section 253(1) of the Education Act 1993. The assessment functions were transferred to it by the Education (School Curriculum and Assessment Authority) (Transfer of Functions) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/645) and the Education (School Curriculum and Assessment Authority) (Transfer of Functions) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/903)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 3(3) was amended by paragraph 113 of Schedule 19 to the Education Act 1993."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The current Orders are the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for English, Welsh, Mathematics and Science) (Key Stage 1) (Wales) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2007), the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for English, Welsh, Mathematics and Science) (Key Stage 2) (Wales) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2208) and the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for English, Welsh, Mathematics and Science) (Key Stage 3) (Wales) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2209)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "The current regulations are the Education (National Curriculum) (Temporary Exceptions for Individual Pupils) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1181)."
    }
  ],
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