{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-areas-to-which-pupils-and-students-belong-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-areas-to-which-pupils-and-students-belong-regulations-1996/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/615",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-areas-to-which-pupils-and-students-belong-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "School pupils resident in hospital",
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall not apply where regulation 7 below applies.\n(2) This regulation shall apply in the case of a school pupil who —\n(a) is a patient in hospital; and\n(b) receives education in a special school established in hospital, or education referred to in section 298(1) of the Education Act 1993 otherwise than at school.\n(3) Where the person responsible for such a pupil is ordinarily resident in the area of an education authority the pupil shall be treated as belonging to that area.\n(4) Where the person responsible for such a pupil is not ordinarily resident in the area of an education authority, the pupil shall be treated as belonging to the area of the authority in which the person responsible for such a pupil is for the time being resident.\n(5) Where the person responsible for such a pupil is neither ordinarily nor for the time being resident in the area of an education authority, or there is no person responsible for the pupil, the pupil shall be treated as belonging to the area of the education authority in which the hospital is situated.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.4.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1301",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/1338",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/615/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:02.183398+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."
}