The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) (Amendment) Order 1991

Made: 17th July 1991

Laid before Parliament: 24th July 1991

Coming into force: 14th August 1991

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 4(2)(a) and (b) and (4) of the Education Reform Act 1988, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order in the terms of the said draft:

Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) (Amendment) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 14th August 1991.

• (2) In this Order any reference to the principal Order is a reference to the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) Order 1990[^f00002].

Partial suspension of the principal Order

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• (1) This article shall apply in the case of the following schools, that is to say—

• In the County of Dyfed: Tasker-Millward School Sir Thomas Picton School

• In the County of Powys: Beguildy Church in Wales School Builth Wells Special Unit Crickhowell County Primary School Crossgates County Primary School Cwmdu Church in Wales School Franksbridge County Primary School Gladestry Church in Wales School Hafren Deaf Unit Howey Church in Wales School Knighton Church in Wales School Llanbedr Church in Wales School Llanbister County Primary School Llandrindod Wells County Primary School Llandrindod Wells Deaf Unit Llandrindod Wells Special Unit Llanfaes Deaf Unit Llanfihangel Rhydithion County Primary School Llangattock Church in Wales School Llangynidr County Primary School Mount Street Special Unit Nantmel Church in Wales School Newbridge-on-Wye Church in Wales School Penrhos Special Unit Presteigne County Primary School Radnor Valley County Primary School Rhayader Church in Wales School Talybont-on-Usk Church in Wales School Trefonnen Church in Wales School Whitton Church in Wales School

• (2) In relation to a school mentioned in paragraph (1) above, to the extent to which the principal Order came into force on 1st August 1990 in pursuance of article 2(a) (pupils in the first year of the First Key Stage), article 3(a) (pupils in the first year of the Second Key Stage), or article 5(a) thereof (pupils in the first year of the third Key Stage), that Order—

• (a) shall cease to be in force, and

• (b) accordingly, shall be of no effect until again brought into force in pursuance of article 10A of that Order as amended by article 3 of this Order.

Amendment of the principal Order

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• (1) In article 1(1) of the principal Order (citation and commencement), after the words “Order 1990 and” there shall be inserted the words, “save as otherwise provided in article 10A,”.

• (2) After article 10 of the principal Order there shall be inserted the following article—

(10A) (1) This article shall apply in the case of a school specified in Schedules 3, 4, 5 or 6 “a specified school” and, for the purposes thereof, in relation to a specified school, any reference to the relevant Part is a reference to the Part of the Schedule in which it is specified. (2) In relation to a specified school, this Order, so far as it relates to a key stage specified in the relevant Part, shall come into force in respect of pupils in a year of that key stage so specified on the date specified opposite thereto in the relevant Part.

• (3) After Schedule 2 to the principal Order there shall be added the Schedules set out in the Appendix to this Order.

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After article 10A of the principal Order there shall be inserted the following article—

(10B) (1) This article shall apply in the case of a school specified in Schedule 7 “a specified school”. (2) In relation to a specified school in Part I of Schedule 7 the provisions of article 6 of the principal Order (which relate to the coming into force of the Order in the Fourth Key Stage in a school where Welsh is taught) shall not apply. (3) In relation to a specified school in Part II of Schedule 7 the provisions of article 10 of the principal Order (which relate to the date of the coming into force of the Order in the Fourth Key Stage in a school where Welsh is not taught) shall not apply.

Signed

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 17th July 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 10(3) of the Education Reform Act 1988 imposes on local education authorities, governing bodies and head teachers of schools the duty to teach the subjects comprising the National Curriculum including Welsh for a reasonable time during each of the key stages defined in the Act. This duty is replaced by the provisions of the attainment targets and programmes of study in a subject in the National Curriculum when these come into force by order of the Secretary of State. In respect of Welsh, the attainment targets and programmes of study come into force over a period of time by virtue of the provisions of the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1082) “the principal Order”.

Regulations have already been made (the Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions) (Wales) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/2187) which disapply the provisions of section 10(3) of the 1988 Act with regard to the teaching of Welsh in a key stage in a school where Welsh has not been taught to more than half of the total number of pupils in the school in that year in either the school year 1987/88 or the school year 1988/89.

This Order suspends the operation of the principal Order in relation to the schools listed in article 2(1) as regards the years of the key stages listed in article 2(2) in relation to those schools.

The schools listed in article 2(1) together with other schools are listed in Schedules 3—6 set out in the Appendix to the Order (which will become Schedules to the principal Order). As regards all these schools, the coming into force of the provisions of the principal Order are postponed as respects each year and key stage referred to in the Schedules to the dates referred to opposite each year and key stage. (Article 3).

This Order also disapplies the provisions of the principal Order regarding the dates of its coming into force in the fourth key stage in the schools listed in Schedule 7 set out in the Appendix to this Order (which becomes a Schedule to the principal Order). (Article 4).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 40.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1990/1082.