{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-pupil-records-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-pupil-records-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1551",
  "legislation_title": "The School Pupil Records (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-pupil-records-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Requirement to give access to information",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, and to regulations 5 to 9, an education authority shall upon request in writing by an appropriate person give him access to information relating to a pupil free of charge by such means as the education authority think fit.\n(2) The requirements of paragraph (1) only arise where the person requesting the information has supplied such information as the authority may reasonably require to establish that he is an appropriate person and to locate the information which he seeks.\n(3) The requirements of paragraph (1) apply to information held at the date of the receipt of the request, but if any correction, addition or erasure is made between that time and the time when the information is supplied, the education authority shall give access also to the information as so amended.\n(4) When an education authority are required by paragraph (1) to comply with a request, they shall, subject to paragraph (5), do so–\n(a) in relation to any information other than information to which regulation 7 or 8 applies, and subject to regulation 9, within 40 days of the date of receiving the request or (if later) the date of receiving any information referred to in paragraph (2);\n(b) in relation to any information to which regulation 7 or 8 applies, within 20 days of receiving an opinion under that regulation, or within the time limit specified in sub-paragraph (a) above if later.\n(5) Where the information to be supplied under paragraph (1) includes any information to which regulation 6 applies, the education authority shall give access within the time limit specified in paragraph (4) to so much of the information to which regulation 6 applies as may be supplied without consent in accordance with regulation 6(5), and where any consent is received they shall give access to the information to which the consent applies within 20 days of receiving the consent, or within the time limit specified in paragraph (4) if later.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1551/regulation/4",
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  },
  "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."
}