Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations:

• “the Act” means the Education Act 1996;

• “GCE ‘A’ level examinations” and “GCE ‘AS’ examinations” mean General Certificate of Education advanced level examinations and General Certificate of Education Advanced Supplementary examinations respectively;

• “GCSE” means General Certificate of Secondary Education;

• “GNVQ” means General National Vocational Qualification;

• “individual pupil information” means information within the meaning of section 537A(9) of the Act, namely, information relating to and identifying individual pupils or former pupils (at schools, other than nursery schools, in England), whether obtained under section 537A(1) of the Act or otherwise;

• “information collator” means an information collator within section 537A(9) of the Act, namely, any body which, for the purposes of or in connection with the functions of the Secretary of State relating to education, is responsible for collating or checking information relating to pupils;

• “key stage” means any of the periods set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) respectively of section 355(1) of the Act and a reference to the first, second or third key stage is a reference to the periods set out respectively in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the said section 355(1); and

• “the relevant local education authority”, in relation to the provision of any individual pupil information, means the local education authority which maintains the school^f1 at which the pupil, the subject of that information, is or was registered or, in the case of a school which is not so maintained, the local education authority for the area in which the school is situated, at which the pupil, the subject of that information, is or was registered.