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The Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions) Regulations 1996

S.I. 1996/2083 · Made 6 August 1996 · Extends to England and Wales

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EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 6th August 996

Laid before Parliament 9th August 1996

Coming into force 1st September 1996

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 17 and 232(5) and (6) of the Education Reform Act 1988f1, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations revoked (E.) (1.9.2002) by The Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions at Key Stage 4) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2048), regs. 1, 11

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 40.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Revocation and transitional provision
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencementF1I1

These Regulations may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st September 1996.

2Revocation and transitional provisionF1I1

(1)

The Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions) Regulations 1994f1 are hereby revoked.

(2)

Notwithstanding paragraph (1), regulation 4 of those Regulations (and the provisions of regulation 1 of, and the Schedule to, those Regulations so far as they relate to regulation 4) shall have effect in relation to the school year beginning in 1996 and any pupil who enters the first year of the fourth key stage in that year as if regulation 4(2)(b) of those Regulations referred to an examination to be held in that school year.

(3)

In this regulation “school year” has the meaning given to that expression in section 3(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988, and the reference to the fourth key stage is, subject to the operation of section 3(4) to (6) of that Act, a reference to the period set out in paragraph (d) of section 3(3) of that Act.

Signature

James Paice

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Education and Employment

6th August 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke, with effect from 1st September 1996, the Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions) Regulations 1994. They make transitional provision in relation to the 1996–97 school year for pupils entering the fourth key stage in that year.