Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Modern Foreign Languages) Order 1995 and, subject to paragraph (2) below, shall come into force on 1st August 1995.

(2)

The provisions of this Order in so far as they relate to the fourth key stage shall come into force—

(a)

on 1st August 1996 in respect of pupils in the first year of that key stage; and

(b)

on 1st August 1997 in respect of all other pupils in that key stage.

(3)

In this Order—

“the Document” means the Document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in January 1995 entitled “Modern Foreign Languages in the National Curriculum”3; and
references to the third and fourth key stages shall be construed in accordance with section 3(3) to (6) of the Education Reform Act 19884.

Revocation

2.

The Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Modern Foreign Languages) Order 19915 is revoked.

Specification of attainment targets and programmes of study

3.

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) below, it is hereby directed that the provisions relating to attainment targets and programmes of study set out in the Document shall have effect for the purposes of specifying attainment targets and programmes of study in relation to modern foreign languages.

(2)

Paragraph (1) above does not apply in respect of pupils in the fourth key stage at schools in Wales.

4.

The examples printed in italics in the Document (which serve to illustrate the programmes of study described therein) do not form part of the provision made by this Order.

Gillian Shephard
Secretary of State for Education
John Redwood
Secretary of State for Wales