{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/learning-and-skills-act-2000/section-33J",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/learning-and-skills-act-2000/section-33J.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/21",
  "legislation_title": "Learning and Skills Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/learning-and-skills-act-2000",
  "path": "section/33J",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33J",
  "heading": "Planning the local curriculum",
  "text": "(1) The following persons must assist the Commission in planning the local curriculum or curricula for a local authority's area—\n(a) the local authority;\n(b) the governing body and head teacher of any maintained school maintained by the authority;\n(c) the governing body and principal of an institution in the authority's area.\n(2) In subsection (1), “ planning the local curriculum or curricula ” means the process by which the Commission decides under section 33A which courses of study to include in the local curriculum or curricula.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 33J inserted (19.1.2011) by Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 1), ss. 31 , 49(2) (as amended by S.I. 2010/1148, art. 3); S.I. 2011/97, art. 2(1)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 33J(1) substituted (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 14(10)(a) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(ww)(xiii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 33J(2) substituted (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 14(10)(b) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(ww)(xiii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 33J(3) omitted (1.4.2026) by virtue of Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 14(10)(c) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 10(1) (with art. 10(2)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 33J(4) omitted (1.4.2026) by virtue of Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 14(10)(c) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 10(1) (with art. 10(2)(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/21/section/33J",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:54.606851+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."
}