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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-exceptions-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/155",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-exceptions-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Exceptions from the provisions of the National Curriculum",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 3 the National Curriculum in any foundation subject shall not apply in relation to a pupil if the conditions set out in paragraph (2) are satisfied.\n(2) The conditions are that—\n(a) the pupil has taken an examination for a relevant qualification in the subject; and\n(b) the examination was taken at any time before the pupil entered the second year of the fourth key stage; and\n(c) all or the majority of the pupils in the pupil’s class took the examination at the same time as the pupil.\n(3) A qualification is a relevant qualification in a foundation subject for the purposes of this regulation and regulation 3 if the assessment procedures for the qualification are specified under section 4(2)(c) of the Act as assessment arrangements for the subject, but the qualification referred to in paragraph (4) is not a relevant qualification.\n(4) The qualification referred to in paragraph (3) which is not a relevant qualification is any qualification the assessment procedures for which are designed to ascertain the achievements of pupils who—\n(a) have been taught a short programme of study in a foundation subject to which paragraph (5) applies, or\n(b) have not, or are unlikely to have, reached any level of attainment in the attainment targets for the subject specified under section 4(2)(a) of the Act in relation to the fourth key stage by the time they reach the end of that key stage.\n(5) This paragraph applies to a foundation subject in relation to which two programmes of study for pupils in the fourth key stage are specified under section 4(2)(b) of the Act, and in paragraph (4) the reference to a short programme of study is to the shorter of the two programmes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/155/regulation/2",
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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."
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