Modification of provisions relating to the Curriculum
5.—(1) In this regulation references to the modification period are references to the period beginning on 19th December 2002 and ending on the day when sections 102, 104 and 108(2) come into force.
(2) During the modification period sections 99(1), 100(1)(a), (2)(a) and (3), 111(1), 114(1) and (5) and 115(4)(a) shall have effect as if the words “or maintained nursery school” were omitted, and section 111(3) shall have effect as if the words “or a maintained nursery school” were omitted.
(3) During the modification period section 100 shall have effect as if there were substituted for paragraph (4) (b)—
“(b)functions relating to religious education and religious worship.”.
(4) During the modification period section 101 shall have effect as if there were substituted for paragraph (1)(b)—
“(b)a curriculum for all registered pupils at the school of compulsory school age (known as “the National Curriculum for Wales”),”.
(5) During the modification period section 108 shall have effect as though these were omitted—
(a)in subsection (1)(b) the words “the foundation stage and”;
(b)in subsection (4), “(2) or”, “the foundation stage or”, “educational programme or” and “(or the timetables of any person providing funded nursery education)”;
(c)in subsection (5) “(2) or”;
(d)in subsection (8) “(2)(b) (iii) or” ;
(e)in subsection (10) “(6) or” and “or, as the case may be, premises on which the funded nursery education is being provided”; and
(f)in subsection (11) “(2)(b)(iii) or” and “(6) or”.
(6) Paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1996(1) shall have effect as though there were substituted for the words “section 351(1)” the words “section 78(1) or 99(1) of the Education Act 2002”.