{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-information-england-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-information-england-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1567",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Information) (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-information-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed circumstances",
  "text": "(1) The following circumstances are prescribed for the purposes of section 253A(1) of the 2009 Act—\n(a) the student is or was—\n(i) in the fourth key stage; or\n(ii) undertaking a 16 to 19 Study Programme; and\n(b) where the person (“P”) provides student information to a person or category of person prescribed in Regulation 5, the student to whom such information relates is or was—\n(i) enrolled or registered with P; or\n(ii) undertaking work with P; or\n(c) where P provides student information to the Secretary of State or to an information collator, such provision follows a request by the Secretary of State or an information collator to P for the information.\n(2) The following persons are not subject to the restriction in paragraph (1)(b)—\n(a) the Secretary of State;\n(b) an information collator;\n(c) the Joint Council for Qualifications;\n(d) the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills;\n(e) a relevant local authority;\n(f) any body which is recognised by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation under section 132 of the 2009 Act in respect of the award or authentication of a specified qualification or description of qualification to which Part 7 of that Act applies;\n(g) the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation;\n(h) the Further Education Commissioner; and\n(i) the Sixth-Form Commissioner.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.9.2015, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“the fourth key stage” is defined in section 82(1)(d) of the Education Act 2002 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 253A(6) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22) for the meaning of “information collator”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills is a Non-Ministerial Department established under section 112 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation is a Non-Ministerial Department established under section 127 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1567/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:22.847727+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."
}