Article 1 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Modern Foreign Languages) Order 1991.

This article shall come into force on 1st August 1992 and all other provisions of this Order shall come into force in accordance with articles 2 and 3 below.

This Order applies in relation to maintained schools in England and Wales only.

In this Order–

• “the Document” means the document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office entitled “Modern Foreign Languages in the National Curriculum”^f1;

• references to the third and fourth key stages are references to the periods set out in paragraphs (c) and (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.