{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007-disclosure-of-higher-education-student-information-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007-disclosure-of-higher-education-student-information-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3201",
  "legislation_title": "The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Higher Education Student Information) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007-disclosure-of-higher-education-student-information-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;\n“the 1992 Act” means the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;\n“the Funding Councils” means the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales;\n“institution of higher education” means an institution within the higher education sector within the meaning of the 1992 Act;\n“mode of study” includes full and part time study and sandwich, block release and day release courses;\n“student” means, for the purposes of these Regulations, a person who undertakes a higher education course of study provided by an institution of higher education;\n“UK provider reference number” means a unique number allocated to a learning provider upon successful registration on the United Kingdom Register of Learning Providers;\n“unique student identifier” means the number which—\n(a) is assigned to a student and is used by the Funding Councils for record management purposes;\n(b) continues to apply to the student regardless of any change in the student’s institution of higher education; and\n(c) does not, without additional information, identify the student.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3201/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:59:32.329924+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."
}