# The Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) Regulations 1989, Regulation 14: Pupils and students in local authority care


(1) This regulation shall apply in the case of a school pupil or full-time further education student in the care of a local authority and shall so apply to the exclusion of any preceding regulation which would otherwise apply in his case.
(2) Such a person shall be treated as belonging to the local education authority area which coincides with or includes the area of the local authority in whose care he is unless that authority has placed him with a foster parent in the area of another local authority in which event the pupil shall be treated as belonging to the area of that other authority.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2037/regulation/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-areas-to-which-pupils-and-students-belong-regulations-1989/regulation-14
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