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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-exceptions-at-key-stage-4-england-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/252",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions at Key Stage 4) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-exceptions-at-key-stage-4-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 2002 Act” means the Education Act 2002;\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“approved qualification” means a qualification approved under section 98 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 for the purposes of section 96 of that Act;\n“curriculum plan” has the meaning given by regulation 4;\n“key skills” has the meaning given by regulation 5;\n“Key Stage 4” is to be construed in accordance with section 82(1) of the 2002 Act;\n“maintained school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community or foundation special school;\n“school”, in relation to any pupil, means the school at which he is registered under section 434 of the 1996 Act; and\n“extended work-related learning programme” has the meaning given by regulation 6.\n(2) In these Regulations references to the head teacher include references to a person nominated by him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/252/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:32:33.546422+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."
}