# The Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions) (Wales) Regulations 1990, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 10(3) of the Education Reform Act 1988 imposes on local education authorities, governing bodies and head teachers of schools the duty to teach the subjects comprising the National Curriculum for a reasonable time during each of the key stages defined in the Act. This duty is replaced by the provisions of the attainment targets and programmes of study in a subject in the National Curriculum when these come into force by order of the Secretary of State. In respect of Welsh, the attainment targets and programmes of study come into force over a period of time by virtue of the provisions of the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) Order 1990. (S.I. 1990/1082).
These Regulations disapply the provisions of section 10(3) with regard to the requirement to teach Welsh for a reasonable time in a year in a key stage in a school (as defined by section 3(6) of the 1988 Act to include part of a school) where Welsh has not been taught to more than half of the total number of pupils in the school in that year in either the school year 1987/88 or the school year 1988/89.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2187/note (the official version)
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