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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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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",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to—\n(a) secondary schools,\n(b) special schools but only in relation to the provision of secondary education to pupils at the schools, and\n(c) middle schools but only in relation to the provision of secondary education to pupils at the schools.\n(2) An alteration comes within this paragraph if the teaching of pupils in a year group at a school falls within a description in an entry in column 1 of table 2 below, and it is proposed to alter the teaching of pupils in that year group so that it falls within the description in the corresponding entry in column 2.\n(3) In this paragraph a “relevant subject” is any subject other than English and Welsh which is taught at the school to pupils in the year group concerned.\nTABLE 2\n1\n2\nFive or more relevant subjects are taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of Welsh to any pupils\nA decrease by four or more of the relevant subjects taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of Welsh to any pupils\nFive or more relevant subjects are taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of English to any pupils\nA decrease by four or more of the relevant subjects taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of English to any pupils\nEvery relevant subject is taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of Welsh to all pupils\nThree or more relevant subjects are taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of English to any pupils\nEvery relevant subject is taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of English to all pupils\nThree or more relevant subjects are taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of Welsh to any pupils\nOne or more relevant subject is taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of Welsh to any pupils\nNo relevant subject is taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of Welsh to any pupils\nOne or more relevant subject is taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of English to any pupils\nNo relevant subject is taught (wholly or mainly) through the medium of English to any pupils",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 in force at 1.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(f)"
    }
  ],
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asc/2025/2",
      "affecting_title": "Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asc/2025/2",
      "affecting_title": "Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}