The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Welsh) Order 1995

Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent

3.—(1) Except where paragraph (2) or (3) applies, the provisions of this Order relating to the second key stage shall come into force on 1st August 1995, subject, however, to article 6 below.

(2) This paragraph applies in the case of a school if, in relation to the first year of the second key stage, Welsh was not taught (whether as a first or a second language) in the curriculum in either the school year commencing in 1987 or in the school year commencing in 1988.

(3) This paragraph applies in the case of a school to which paragraph (2) does not apply if, in the school year commencing in 1990 less than half of the total number of pupils in the first year of the second key stage in the school were taught Welsh in the curriculum in both the school year commencing in 1988 and the school year commencing in 1989.

(4) Where paragraph (2) or (3) above applies this Order so far as it relates to the second key stage shall come into force—

(a) on 1st August 1995 in respect of pupils in the first and second years of that key stage;

(b) on 1st August 1996 in respect of pupils in the third year of that key stage; and

(c) on 1st August 1997 in respect of pupils in any subsequent year of that key stage.