Learning and Skills Act 2000

[F1 33N The local curriculum: interpretation E+W

(1) In sections 33A to 33L—

• [F2 “academic year” means the period beginning on the fourth Monday of September in any year and ending on the first day of September in the following year;]

• [F3 “course of study” means a course of education or training that—

  (a)

  leads to a form of qualification or set of forms of qualification approved under Part 4 of the Qualifications Wales Act 2015 or designated under Part 5 of that Act, or

  (b)

  is designated by the Welsh Ministers under section 34(8) of that Act;]

• “entitlement period” means the period described in section 33E(2);

• [F4 “fourth key stage” is to be construed in accordance with section 103 of the Education Act 2002;]

• “institution” means an institution within the further education sector in Wales unless the institution provides education wholly or mainly for persons with [F5 a learning difficulty (within the meaning of section 41);] [F5 additional learning needs (within the meaning given by the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018);]

• “local curriculum” and “local curricula” are to be construed in accordance with section 33A;

• “local authority” means a local authority in Wales;

• “ maintained school ” means a community, foundation or voluntary school maintained by a local authority in Wales provided that it is also a secondary school;

• “principal”, in relation to an institution, means the principal or other head of the institution;

• “regulations” means regulations made by the Welsh Ministers;

• “relevant school or institution”, in relation to a person, is to be construed in accordance with section 33D;

• “relevant student”, in relation to a maintained school or institution, means a student for whom the school or institution is his or her relevant school or institution;

• “student” means a person who has made an election under section 33E.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, an expression used in sections 33A to 33N, 33P and 33Q and also the Education Act 1996 is to bear for the purposes of those sections the meaning given to it for the purposes of that Act.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 33N inserted (19.1.2011) by Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 1), ss. 35, 49(2) (as amended by S.I. 2010/1148, art. 3; and as further amended (1.9.2022 for specified purposes) by S.I. 2022/744, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 11(2)); S.I. 2011/97, art. 2(1)(j)

F2 Words in s. 33N(1) substituted (1.9.2011) by Education (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 5), ss. 22(3), 26(3); S.I. 2011/1951, art. 2

F3 Words in s. 33N(1) substituted (1.5.2016) by The Qualifications Wales Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/236), regs. 1, 2

F4 Words in s. 33N(1) omitted (1.9.2022 for specified purposes) by virtue of The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Primary Legislation) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/744), reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 5(3)

F5 Words in s. 33N substituted (1.9.2021 for specified purposes, 1.1.2022 for specified purposes, 1.9.2022 for specified purposes) by Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 2), s. 100(3), Sch. 1 para. 8(2); 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, art. 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