# The School Pupil Records (Scotland) Regulations 1990, Regulation 8: Opinion required before giving access to information obtained from the Reporter to a Children’s Panel


(1) This regulation applies to information relating to a pupil which the education authority believe to have originated from a Reporter to a Children’s Panel acting in pursuance of his statutory duties, or to have been supplied to them by or on behalf of such a Reporter so acting.
(2) An education authority shall not be required to give access under regulation 4(1) to information to which this regulation applies unless the education authority have obtained the opinion of the Reporter on whether–
(a) disclosure of any of the information would be likely to have the effect specified in regulation 5(1)(f);
(b) disclosure of any of the information would be likely to have the effect specified in regulation 5(1)(g); and
(c) disclosure of any of the information would be likely to have the effect specified in regulation 6(1).
(3) Where this regulation applies, the education authority shall, within 14 days of receiving the request to give access to information under regulation 4(1), or of receiving the information referred to in regulation 4(2) where that provision applies, in writing inform the Reporter that the request has been made and request an opinion for the purposes of this regulation, and the education authority shall give the Reporter such information as is appropriate to enable such an opinion to be given.
(4) Where such an opinion is obtained it shall be applied for the purposes of regulation 5(1)(f) and (g) as read with regulation 5(3), and for the purpose of regulation 6(1) as read with regulation 6(2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1551/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/school-pupil-records-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-8
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