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(1) The title of these Regulations is the Education (Local Curriculum for Pupils in Key Stage 4) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and they come into force on 5 February 2014.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
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The Education (Local Curriculum for Pupils in Key Stage 4) (Wales) Regulations 2009 are amended as follows—
(a) for regulation 4 substitute—“
4. 

(1) The local curriculum for every maintained secondary school in Wales must include a minimum of 25 courses of study at NQF level 2, of which at least 3 must be vocational.
(2) A local authority may include a course of study at NQF level 1 instead of a course at NQF level 2 in the local curriculum for a maintained secondary school in its area if the same course is not available at NQF level 2 for pupils in the fourth key stage.”;
(b) omit regulations 5 to 7; and
(c) in the heading to regulation 11 omit “and notices waiving right to review”.
Huw Lewis
Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers
13 January 2014