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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-exceptions-at-key-stage-4-england-regulations-2000/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1140",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions at Key Stage 4) (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-exceptions-at-key-stage-4-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Modification of statutory programmes of study for National Curriculum subjects",
  "text": "A head teacher may modify programmes of study in modern foreign language, design and technology or science to provide pupils with courses leading to qualifications specified for this purpose in the annual circular listing qualifications and syllabuses that have been approved by the Secretary of State under section 400 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "A Circular is produced annually and is entitled “Approved qualifications under section 400 of the Education Act 1996”. The current Circular is 40/2000."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2048",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions at Key Stage 4) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1140/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:52.941272+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."
}