{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-areas-to-which-pupils-and-students-belong-regulations-1996/regulation-7/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-areas-to-which-pupils-and-students-belong-regulations-1996/regulation-7/enacted.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/enacted",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Children looked after by a local authority",
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall apply to the exclusion of any other regulation which would otherwise apply to such a person.\n(2) This regulation shall apply in the case of a child who is looked after by a local authority—\n(a) for whom a statement of special educational needs is maintained under Part III of the Education Act 1993, or\n(b) who is registered as a pupil at a special school, or\n(c) who is a patient in hospital, and receives education either in a special school established in a hospital or education referred to in section 298(1) of the Education Act 1993 otherwise than at school, or\n(d) who is a further education student.\n(3) Such a person shall be treated as belonging to the education authority area which coincides with or includes the area of the local authority which looks after him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/615/regulation/7",
    "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."
}