{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-information-about-individual-pupils-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-information-about-individual-pupils-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/4020",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-information-about-individual-pupils-england-regulations-2001",
  "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” means the General Certificate of Education advanced level examination or the General Certificate of Education advanced subsidiary examination;\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;\n“non-maintained special school” means a special school which is not maintained by a local education authority;\n“NVQ” means National Vocational Qualification;\n“permanently excluded” in relation to a pupil 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 General Certificate of Education advanced supplementary examination,\n(iii) a GNVQ at level 3,\n(iv) a GNVQ precursor at level 3,\n(v) a NVQ at level 3,\n(vi) a VCE, or\n(vii) an International Baccalaureate Diploma,\nand 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;\n“special school” has the meaning given by section 337 of the 1996 Act;\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 Skills; and\n“VCE” means the Vocational Certificate of Education.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2089."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 337 was substituted by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (1998 c. 31), section 140(1) and Schedule 30, paragraphs 57 and 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3101",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/3112",
      "affecting_title": "Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/4020/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:18:35.450376+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."
}