{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-areas-to-which-pupils-and-students-belong-regulations-1989/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-areas-to-which-pupils-and-students-belong-regulations-1989/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2037",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-areas-to-which-pupils-and-students-belong-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "School pupils resident in hospital",
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall apply in the case of a school pupil who receives education while residing as a patient in a hospital.\n(2) Where the person responsible for such a pupil is ordinarily resident in the area of a local education authority the pupil shall be treated as belonging to that area.\n(3) Where the person responsible for such a pupil is not so resident, the pupil shall be treated as belonging to the area to which he belonged immediately before he became a patient in the hospital.\n(4) Where the pupil did not belong to the area of any local education authority immediately before he became a patient in the hospital, he shall be treated as belonging to the area of the local education authority in which the hospital is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/361",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) (Amendment) Regulations 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2037/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:35:17.842331+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."
}