{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-modern-foreign-languages-order-1991/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-modern-foreign-languages-order-1991/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2567",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Modern Foreign Languages) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-modern-foreign-languages-order-1991",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Modern Foreign Languages) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st January 1992.\n(2) In this order—\nreferences to the third and fourth key stages are references to the periods set out in section 3(3)(c) and (d) respectively of the Education Reform Act 1988;\nreferences to relevant pupils are references to pupils in the third and fourth key stages in respect of whom there is a requirement to study a modern foreign language as a foundation subject; and\nreferences to official languages of the European Community are to languages specified as official languages of the institutions of the European Community by Article 1 of EEC Council Regulation No. 1 of April 15, 1958.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "J.O. 1958, 385; O.J. 1952-58, 59. Article 1 was amended by successive Acts of Accession, most recently by that of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portugese Republic."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2567/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:34:31.745221+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."
}