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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-attainment-targets-and-programmes-of-study-in-science-order-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/309",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Science) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-attainment-targets-and-programmes-of-study-in-science-order-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 3rd March 1989\nLaid before Parliament 14th March 1989\nComing into force in accordance with articles 2 to 5\nWhereas the National Curriculum Council, after due consultation, submitted to the Secretary of State and published its report on a proposal to make this Order which he had referred to it, in accordance with section 20(2) to (4) of the Education Reform Act 1988;\nAnd whereas the Secretary of State had given notice of the said proposal to the Curriculum Council for Wales and to all other persons with whom consultation appeared to him desirable, in accordance with section 21(2) of the said Act;\nAnd whereas the Secretary of State, in accordance with subsection (5) of the said section 20, and subsection (3) of the said section 21, duly published a draft of this Order and the other documents mentioned in those subsections and sent copies of them to the said Councils and to each of the persons consulted by them, and allowed a period of not less than one month for the submission of evidence and representations;\nAnd whereas that period has now expired:\nNow therefore the Secretary of State for Education and Science, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 4(2)(a) and (b) and (4) of the Education Reform Act 1988 hereby make the following Order in the terms of the said draft with modifications:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The modifications are to the commencement provisions and to the attainment targets specified in Schedule 1 for the second key stage and to the levels of attainment specified for the second and third key stages. The title of the associated Document has also been changed."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/309/introduction",
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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."
}