The Operation of the Local Curriculum (Wales) Regulations 2013

Application of legislation related to education to pupils and students following courses of study in the local curriculum

6.—(1) For the purposes of the following provisions a local curriculum student is to be taken to be a registered pupil at a school—

(a) sections 317(1)(c), 451(1), 452(6), 453, 454(1), (3), (4), 455(1), 457(3), and 460 of the 1996 Act;

(b) section 462(2) of the 1996 Act in so far as the definition of “residential trip” applies to sections 452 and 455(1)(d) of the 1996 Act;

(c) section 62 of the 1998 Act; and

(d) section 29(3) of the 2002 Act.

(2) The definition of “residential trip” in section 462(2) of the 1996 Act includes, for the purpose of section 457(4) of the 1996 Act, a trip arranged by or on behalf of a governing body of another maintained school where pupils attend for the purposes of following a course of study within the local curriculum.

(3) For the purposes of Chapter 3 of the 1996 Act, in addition to the circumstances set out in section 462(3) of that Act, a pupil is to be regarded as having been prepared at a school where the pupil is a registered pupil for a syllabus for a prescribed public examination if any part of the education provided with a view to preparing the pupil for that examination in that syllabus has been provided for the pupil at another school or place where the pupil has attended for the purpose of following a course of study within the local curriculum.