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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-information-about-individual-pupils-england-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-information-about-individual-pupils-england-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3370",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-information-about-individual-pupils-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“GCE “A” Level examination” and “GCE “AS” examination” mean General Certificate of Education advanced level examination and General Certificate of Education advanced supplementary examination respectively;\n“GCSE” means General Certificate of Secondary Education;\n“GNVQ” means General National Vocational Qualification;\n“GNVQ precursor” means any of—\n(a) the National Certificate or National Diploma of the EDEXCEL Foundation;\n(b) the Diploma of Vocational Education of the City and Guilds of London Institute at national level;\n(c) the First Certificate or First Diploma of the EDEXCEL Foundation; or\n(d) the Diploma of Vocational Education of the City and Guilds of London Institute at intermediate level;\nbeing qualifications approved by the Secretary of State under section 400 of the 1996 Act;\n“NVQ” means National Vocational Qualification;\n“permanently excluded” means a pupil who has been permanently excluded from a school on disciplinary grounds;\n“permanent exclusion date” means the date on which the name of a permanently excluded pupil is deleted from the Register;\n“post advanced level course” means a course of study being undertaken by a pupil who has completed a course leading to any of—\n(i) a GCE “A” level examination,\n(ii) a GCE “AS” examination,\n(iii) a GNVQ at level 3,\n(iv) a GNVQ precursor at level 3, or\n(v) a NVQ at level 3 and is no longer studying any of those courses;\n“Register” means the register of pupils kept under section 434 of the 1996 Act and in accordance with the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995; and\n“unique pupil number” means a combination of numbers which together with a letter or letters are allocated to a pupil and are particular to him, by use of a formula determined by the Department for Education and Employment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2089."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3370/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:07:58.606890+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."
}