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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-local-curriculum-for-pupils-in-key-stage-4-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-local-curriculum-for-pupils-in-key-stage-4-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2009/3256",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Local Curriculum for Pupils in Key Stage 4) (Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-local-curriculum-for-pupils-in-key-stage-4-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Minimum number of courses of study of local curricula",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4) the local curriculum for every maintained secondary school in local authority area A for the school year 2010 to 2011 and every subsequent school year must include a minimum of 30 courses of study at NQF level 2, of which at least 5 must be vocational.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4) the local curriculum for every maintained secondary school in local authority area B must include—\n(a) for the school year 2010 to 2011 a minimum of 28 courses of study at NQF level 2, of which at least 4 must be vocational; and\n(b) for every subsequent school year a minimum of 30 courses of study at NQF level 2, of which at least 5 must be vocational.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4) the local curriculum for every maintained secondary school in local authority area C must include—\n(a) for the school year 2010 to 2011 a minimum of 26 courses of study at NQF level 2, of which at least 4 must be vocational;\n(b) for the school year 2011 to 2012 a minimum of 28 courses of study at NQF level 2, of which at least 4 must be vocational; and\n(c) for every subsequent school year a minimum of 30 courses of study at NQF level 2, of which at least 5 must be vocational.\n(4) A local authority may include a course of study at NQF level 1 instead of a course at NQF level 2 in the local curriculum for a maintained secondary school in its area if the same course is not available at NQF level 2 for pupils in the fourth key stage.\n(5) The minimum number of vocational courses of study required by paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) must fall within at least 3 of the learning domains.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2014/42",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Local Curriculum for Pupils in Key Stage 4) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2010/2431",
      "affecting_title": "The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/3256/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:54:52.139362+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."
}