Exception to the National Curriculum in science2
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1
The provisions of the National Curriculum in science shall not apply in the case of a pupil in the first year of the fourth key stage in the school year 1992/93 or in the second year of that key stage in the school year 1993/94 who satisfies the condition specified in paragraph (2) below.
2
The condition is that the pupil is following courses of study leading to examinations for the GCSE in all three of the following subjects, namely: physics, chemistry and biology.
3
References in paragraph (2) above to the GCSE in a particular subject are to any GCSE in a subject the syllabus of which conforms to the GCSE National Criteria for that subject for the time being approved pursuant to section 5 of the Act2.