{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-individual-pupils-achievements-information-wales-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/573",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Individual Pupils’ Achievements) (Information) (Wales) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-individual-pupils-achievements-information-wales-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“attainment target” has the meaning given to it by section 353(a) of the Act;\n“attendance record” means the record of a pupil’s school attendance contained in the Attendance Register kept in accordance with section 434 of the Act and the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995;\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 355(1) 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 356(4) of the Act the provisions of which have effect, by virtue of any Order made under section 356(2)(a) or (b) of the Act and, unless the context otherwise requires, means such levels as determined and recorded in accordance with the statutory arrangements;\n“maintained school” means—\n(a) any county or voluntary school;\n(b) any maintained or grant-maintained special school (other than one established in a hospital); and\n(c) any grant-maintained school;\n“NC tests”, in the case of pupils in the final year of the first key stage, means standard task assessments administered to pupils in accordance with the statutory arrangements and, in relation to pupils in the final year of the second or third key stage, ‘NC tests’ and ‘NC tasks’ means respectively National Curriculum tests and National Curriculum tasks administered to pupils in accordance with those arrangements;\n“relevant subjects” means—\n(a) in relation to teacher assessment and any key stage, all those subjects in respect of which the pupil or pupils concerned are required to be assessed by teacher assessment;\n(b) in relation to National Curriculum tests and any key stage, all those subjects in respect of which the pupil or pupils concerned are required to be assessed by the administration of such tests; and\n(c) in relation to NC tasks and any key stage, all those subjects in respect of which such tasks are required to be administered to the pupil or pupils concerned,\nin that key stage in accordance with the statutory arrangements;\n“result” in relation to any assessment under the statutory arrangements means (subject to regulation 3(11) to (13)) the result of the assessment as determined and recorded in accordance with those arrangements;\n“school day” means a day on which the school meets;\n“teacher assessment” means assessment by a teacher in accordance with the statutory arrangements;\n“the statutory arrangements” means assessment arrangements specified by orders made under section 356(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 the pupil by virtue of regulations made under section 363 of the Act, provision made pursuant to section 364 of the Act in the pupil’s statement of special educational needs or a direction given by the head teacher pursuant to regulations made under section 365 of the Act.\n(3) 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": "For the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations” see section 579(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2089."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 360 of the Education Act 1996."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "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. 1995/2207), 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) (Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/2337)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The current regulations are the Education (National Curriculum) (Temporary Exceptions for Individual Pupils) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1181)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2709",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2709",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/46",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/573/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
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