Governing body of a maintained school or maintained nursery school and schools maintained by the Secretary of State for Defence3

1

This regulation applies–

a

to a request for information that is received by the governing body of a maintained school or a maintained nursery school3; and

b

to a request for information that is held by the public authority only by virtue of the information being situated in a school which is maintained by the Secretary of State for Defence and which provides primary or secondary education (or both primary and secondary education).

2

Where this regulation applies, subsections (1) and (2) of section 10 of the Act have effect as if any reference to the twentieth working day following the date of receipt were a reference to either–

a

the twentieth working day following the date of receipt, disregarding any working day which, in relation to the school referred to in paragraph (1), is not a school day, or

b

the sixtieth working day following the date of receipt,

whichever occurs first.

3

“School day”, for the purposes of this regulation, means any day on which, at the school referred to in paragraph (1) above, there is a session.