Article 1

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Modern Foreign Languages) (Wales) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st August 2000.

(2)

In this Order —

references to the third key stage are references to the period set out in section 355(1)(c) of the Education Act 1996; and
references 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^f1.

(3)

This Order applies to Wales.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: O.J. 1958, 385; DJ 1952-58, 59. Article 1 was amended by successive Acts of Accession. At the date of this Order the official languages are Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.