{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/learning-and-skills-act-2000/section-33P",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/learning-and-skills-act-2000/section-33P.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/21",
  "legislation_title": "Learning and Skills Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/learning-and-skills-act-2000",
  "path": "section/33P",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33P",
  "heading": "Application of local curriculum provisions to students who are registered pupils of special schools or who have learning difficulties additional learning needs",
  "text": "(1) Regulations made by the Welsh Ministers may apply the provisions of sections 33A to 33L, 33N and 33O and the provisions of any regulations made under section 46 of the Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 in respect of a person who falls, or is likely to fall, within subsection (3).\n(2) The regulations may apply those provisions with such modifications as appear to the Welsh Ministers to be necessary or expedient.\n(3) A person falls within this subsection if he or she—\n(a) is above compulsory school age; and\n(b) either—\n(i) a registered pupil of a community ... special school which is maintained by a local authority in Wales and is not established in a hospital; or\n(ii) receiving the majority of his or her education at an institution which provides education wholly or mainly for persons with a learning difficulty additional learning needs (within the meaning of section 41).\n(4) The Welsh Ministers must consult the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research before making regulations under subsection (1).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 33P inserted (19.1.2011) by Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 1), ss. 37, 49(2) (as amended by S.I. 2010/1148, art. 3); S.I. 2011/97, art. 2(1)(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 33P(1) inserted (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 14(16)(a) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(ww)(xix)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 33P(3)(b)(i) omitted (1.10.2013) by virtue of School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 20(2); S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 33P(3)(b)(ii) substituted (1.9.2021 for specified purposes, 1.1.2022 for specified purposes, 1.9.2022 for specified purposes, 1.9.2025 for specified purposes) by Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 2), s. 100(3), Sch. 1 para. 8(3)(b); S.I. 2021/373, arts. 3, 4, 6, 7 (as amended by S.I. 2021/938, art. 2); S.I. 2021/1243, art. 3 (with arts. 4-23) (as amended by S.I. 2021/1428, art. 2); S.I. 2021/1244, art. 3 (with arts. 4-21) (as amended by S.I. 2021/1428, art. 3); S.I. 2021/1245, arts. 3, 4 (with art. 1(4)); S.I. 2022/891, art. 3 (with arts. 4-25); S.I. 2022/892, arts. 2, 3 (with arts. 4-18); S.I. 2022/893, arts. 2, 4; S.I. 2022/894, art. 3; S.I. 2022/895, arts. 3, 4; S.I. 2022/896, art. 3 (with arts. 1(7), 4-22); S.I. 2022/897, art. 3 (with arts. 1(8), 4-21); S.I. 2022/898, arts. 2, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 33P(4) inserted (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 14(16)(b) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(ww)(xix)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 33P heading substituted (1.9.2021 for specified purposes, 1.1.2022 for specified purposes, 1.9.2022 for specified purposes, 1.9.2025 for specified purposes) by Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 2), s. 100(3), Sch. 1 para. 8(3)(a); S.I. 2021/373, arts. 3, 4, 6, 7 (as amended by S.I. 2021/938, art. 2); S.I. 2021/1243, art. 3 (with arts. 4-23) (as amended by S.I. 2021/1428, art. 2); S.I. 2021/1244, art. 3 (with arts. 4-21) (as amended by S.I. 2021/1428, art. 3); S.I. 2021/1245, arts. 3, 4 (with art. 1(4)); S.I. 2022/891, art. 3 (with arts. 4-25); S.I. 2022/892, arts. 2, 3 (with arts. 4-18); S.I. 2022/893, arts. 2, 4; S.I. 2022/894, art. 3; S.I. 2022/895, arts. 3, 4; S.I. 2022/896, art. 3 (with arts. 1(7), 4-22); S.I. 2022/897, art. 3 (with arts. 1(8), 4-21); S.I. 2022/898, arts. 2, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/21/section/33P",
    "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."
}