Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in English) (No. 2) Order 1990 and shall come into force in accordance with articles 2 to 4.

In this Order–

• “the Document” means the document published in March 1990 by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office entitled “English in the National Curriculum (No. 2)”^f1;

• references to the first, second, third and fourth key stages are references to the periods set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) respectively of section 3(3) of the Education Reform Act 1988; and

• references to levels of attainment are references to the levels set out in the Document in relation to each attainment target.

Article 8 of this Order applies to schools in Wales only.