The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2009

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

3.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;

“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996(1);

“anonymous pupil reference number” means the number which—

(a)

is assigned to a pupil by use of a formula determined by the Department for Children, Schools and Families;

(b)

continues to apply to the pupil regardless of any change in the pupil’s school; and

(c)

does not, without additional information, identify the pupil;

“pupil” has the meaning given by section 3 of the 1996 Act(2);

“school” has the meaning given by section 4 of the 1996 Act(3).

(2)

1996 c.56; section 3 was amended by the Education Act 1997 (c.44), Schedule 7, paragraph 9; and the Education Act 2002 (c.32), Schedule 21, paragraph 34.

(3)

1996 c.56; section 4 was amended by the Education Act 1997 (c.44), section 51 and Schedule 7, paragraph 10; the Education Act 2002, Schedule 22, part 3; and the Childcare Act 2006 (c.21), section 95.