{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-537C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-537C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996",
  "path": "section/537C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "537C",
  "heading": "Disclosure of information by or to principal regulators of exempt charities",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in any provision made by or under section 537, 537A or 537B requires or authorises the provision of information—\n(a) by the principal regulator of an exempt charity (within the meaning of section 25 of the Charities Act 2011), if the information was received by that principal regulator in its capacity as such; or\n(b) to the principal regulator of an exempt charity in its capacity as such.\n(2) Nothing in subsection (1) prevents the disclosure of information under section 56 or 57 of the Charities Act 2011.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 537C substituted (1.8.2011) by The Charities Act 2006 (Principal Regulators of Exempt Charities) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1726), regs. 1(2), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 537C(1)(a) substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 74(a) (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 537C(2) substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 74(b) (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/section/537C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:40.627017+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}