# The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Higher Education Student Information) Regulations 2009, Regulation 2: Interpretation


In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;
“the 1992 Act” means the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;
“the Funding Councils” means the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales;
“institution of higher education” means an institution within the higher education sector within the meaning of the 1992 Act;
“mode of study” includes full and part time study and sandwich, block release and day release courses;
“student” means, for the purposes of these Regulations, a person who undertakes a higher education course of study provided by an institution of higher education;
“UK provider reference number” means a unique number allocated to a learning provider upon successful registration on the United Kingdom Register of Learning Providers;
“unique student identifier” means the number which—
(a) is assigned to a student and is used by the Funding Councils for record management purposes;
(b) continues to apply to the student regardless of any change in the student’s institution of higher education; and
(c) does not, without additional information, identify the student.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111480908/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007-disclosure-of-higher-education-student-information-regulations-2009/regulation-2
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