The Education (Information About Post-16 Individual Pupils) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Name, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations are called the Education (Information About Post-16 Individual Pupils) (Wales) Regulations 2003 and come into force on 26th September 2003.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

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

“learning activity reference” (“cyfeirnod gweithgaredd dysgu”) means a combination of numbers which together with a letter are allocated to a course of study or other learning activity and are particular to that course or learning activity, determined by the National Council for Training and Education for Wales;

“Register” (“Cofrestr”) means the register of pupils kept under section 434 of the 1996 Act and in accordance with the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995(1);

“sixth form pupil” (“disgybl chweched dosbarth”) means a pupil in respect of whose education the National Council for Training and Education for Wales may make a grant to the local education authority under section 36 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000(2); and

“unique pupil number” (“rhif unigryw disgybl”) means a combination of numbers which together with a letter or letters are allocated to a pupil and are particular to that pupil, by use of a formula determined by the National Assembly for Wales.

Provision of information by schools maintained by local education authorities to their local education authorities

3.  Within fourteen days of receiving a request in writing from the local education authority by which a school is maintained, the governing body must provide to the authority such of the information referred to in the Schedule to these Regulations as is so requested in respect of each sixth form pupil on the school’s Register on the date specified in the request.

Prescribed Persons

4.  For the purposes of section 537A(4) of the 1996 Act the National Council for Training and Education for Wales is prescribed as a person to whom the National Assembly for Wales may provide any individual pupil information.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(3)

D.Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

24th September 2003