The National Curriculum (Assessment Arrangements on Entry to the Foundation Phase) (Wales) (Revocation) Order 2012

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 935 (W.121)

EDUCATION, WALES

The National Curriculum (Assessment Arrangements on Entry to the Foundation Phase) (Wales) (Revocation) Order 2012

Made

23 March 2012

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

27 March 2012

Coming into force

18 April 2012

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by sections 108(2)(b)(iii), (5), (6), (9) and (11) and 210 of the Education Act 2002(1) and now vested in them(2), make the following Order.

Title and commencement

1.—(1) The title of this Order is the National Curriculum (Assessment Arrangements on Entry to the Foundation Phase) (Wales) (Revocation) Order 2012 and it comes into force on 18 April 2012.

(2) This Order applies in relation to Wales.

Revocation

2.  The National Curriculum (Assessment Arrangements on Entry to the Foundation Phase) (Wales) Order 2011(3) is revoked.

Leighton Andrews

Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers.

23 March 2012

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under section 108(2)(b)(iii) of the Education Act 2002 the Welsh Ministers may specify, by order, such assessment arrangements as they consider appropriate for the foundation phase. The National Curriculum (Assessment Arrangements on Entry to the Foundation Phase) (Wales) Order 2011 (“the 2011 Order”) set out those arrangements. This Order revokes the 2011 Order.

(1)

2002 c. 32. Subsection (2) of section 108 was amended by section 21(1) and (7)(a) of the Education (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 5). Subsection (6) of section 108 was amended by S.I. 2010/1158 and subsections (2), (6) and (11) were amended by paragraphs 11 to 13 of the Schedule to the Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 1).

(2)

The functions of the National Assembly for Wales under those sections were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

(3)

S.I. 2011/1947 (W.213).