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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "anaw/2013/1",
  "legislation_title": "School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to—\n(a) primary schools,\n(b) special schools but only in relation to the provision of primary education to pupils at the schools, and\n(c) middle schools but only in relation to the provision of primary education to pupils at the schools.\n(2) An alteration comes within this paragraph if the teaching of a class of pupils in a relevant year group (or groups) at a school falls within a description in an entry in column 1 of table 1 below, and it is proposed to alter the teaching of the corresponding class of pupils in that relevant year group (or those relevant year groups) so that it falls within the description in the corresponding entry in column 2.\n(3) In this paragraph—\n(a) “relevant year group” means a year group in which the majority of the pupils have not yet completed the school year in which they attain the age of 11;\n(b) a reference to the teaching of a class of pupils does not include a school assembly or other school activities usually conducted with large groups of pupils.\nTABLE 1\n1\n2\nAt least 20% but no more than 80% of the teaching is conducted through the medium of English\nAn increase or a decrease of more than 20% in the teaching which is conducted through the medium of Welsh\nAt least 20% but no more than 80% of the teaching is conducted through the medium of Welsh\nAn increase or a decrease of more than 20% in the teaching which is conducted through the medium of English\nMore than 80% of the teaching is conducted through the medium of English, and some teaching is conducted through the medium of Welsh\nAn increase of more than 10% in the teaching which is conducted through the medium of Welsh\nMore than 80% of the teaching is conducted through the medium of Welsh, and some teaching is conducted through the medium of English\nAn increase of more than 10% in the teaching which is conducted through the medium of English\nNo teaching is conducted through the medium of Welsh\nMore than 10% of teaching is conducted through the medium of Welsh\nNo teaching is conducted through the medium of English\nMore than 10% of teaching is conducted through the medium of English\nSome teaching is conducted through the medium of English\nNo teaching is conducted through the medium of English\nSome teaching is conducted through the medium of Welsh\nNo teaching is conducted through the medium of Welsh",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7(2) substituted (1.9.2022 for specified purposes, 1.9.2023 for specified purposes, 1.9.2024 for specified purposes, 1.9.2025 for specified purposes, 1.9.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Primary Legislation) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/744), reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 14(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7(2) substituted (1.9.2022 for specified purposes, 1.9.2023 for specified purposes, 1.9.2024 for specified purposes, 1.9.2025 for specified purposes, 1.9.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Primary Legislation) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/744), reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 14(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7(3)(a) substituted (1.9.2022 for specified purposes, 1.9.2023 for specified purposes, 1.9.2024 for specified purposes, 1.9.2025 for specified purposes, 1.9.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Primary Legislation) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/744), reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 14(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7 in force at 1.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asc/2025/2",
      "affecting_title": "Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asc/2025/2",
      "affecting_title": "Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/1/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:33.426523+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."
}