# The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013, Regulation 5A: Provision of information by schools


(1) This regulation applies to the appropriate person at—
(a) a school maintained by a local authority;
(b) a special school which is not maintained by a local authority and is not an Academy school;
(c) an Academy school;
(d) an alternative provision Academy,
that is not a nursery school.
(2) The appropriate person must provide to the Secretary of State, on request, by the date specified in the request, the information specified in Schedule 1A in relation to all registered pupils and in relation to such times as are specified in the request.
(3) The duty in paragraph (2) applies to pupils who are no longer registered pupils when the information is provided to the Secretary of State, where the information relates to the time during which the pupil was a registered pupil.
(4) The duty in paragraph (2) to provide information on request can be met by the school having an electronic management information system containing the required information that can be accessed at all times by the Secretary of State or someone on the Secretary of State’s behalf.
(5) In this regulation “appropriate person” means—
(a) in the case of a school maintained by a local authority, that is not a pupil referral unit, the governing body of the school;
(b) in the case of a pupil referral unit, the local authority maintaining the unit;
(c) in the case of a special school not maintained by a local authority, the proprietor;
(d) in the case of an Academy school, the proprietor;
(e) in the case of an alternative provision Academy, the proprietor.
(6) For the purposes of section 537A(8), where the Secretary of State has specified in the request a person to whom the information must be provided, the provision of information to that person is to be treated as compliance with the requirement to provide the information to the Secretary of State.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2094/regulation/5A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-information-about-individual-pupils-england-regulations-2013/regulation-5A
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