{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-attainment-targets-and-programmes-of-study-in-english-order-1989/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/907",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in English) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-attainment-targets-and-programmes-of-study-in-english-order-1989",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in English) Order 1989 and shall come into force in accordance with article 2.\n(2) In this Order–\n“the Document” means the document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office entitled “English in the National Curriculum”;\nreferences to the first key stage are references to the period set out in paragraph (a) of section 3(3) of the Education Reform Act 1988; and\nreferences to levels of attainment are references to the levels set out in the Document in relation to each attainment target.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The modifications are to the commencement provisions."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/907/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:43:49.868364+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."
}