{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-administration-rules-2018/article-7.39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-administration-rules-2018/article-7.39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1135",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Administration Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-administration-rules-2018",
  "path": "article/7.39",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7.39",
  "heading": "Use of website by education administrator to deliver a particular document",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies for the purposes of section 246B of the Act.\n(2) An education administrator who is required to deliver a document to any person may (except where personal delivery is required) satisfy that requirement by delivering a notice to that person which contains—\n(a) a statement that the document is available for viewing and downloading on a website;\n(b) the website’s address and any password necessary to view and download the document; and\n(c) a statement that the person to whom the notice is delivered may request a hard copy of the document with a telephone number, email address and postal address which may be used to make that request.\n(3) An education administrator who receives such a request must deliver a hard copy of the document to the recipient free of charge within five business days of receipt of the request.\n(4) A document to which a notice under paragraph (2) relates must—\n(a) remain available on the website for the period required by rule 7.41; and\n(b) be in a format that enables it to be downloaded within a reasonable time of an electronic request being made for it to be downloaded.\n(5) A document which is delivered to a person by means of a website in accordance with this rule is deemed to have been delivered—\n(a) when the document is first made available on the website; or\n(b) when the notice under paragraph (2) is delivered to that person, if that is later.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1135/article/7.39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:52:44.908739+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."
}