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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007-disclosure-of-pupil-information-england-regulations-2009/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007-disclosure-of-pupil-information-england-regulations-2009/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/277",
  "legislation_title": "The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007-disclosure-of-pupil-information-england-regulations-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide that the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families may disclose the information listed in regulation 4 about individual pupils to the Statistics Board (the Board). Regulation 5 provides that the Board may only use that information in order to enable it to produce population statistics; for the making of arrangements for a census that the Board is required to undertake under the Census Act 1920; and for the assessment of the census returns.\nRegulation 6 places further restrictions on the circumstances under which personal information may be disclosed by the Board. Personal information may only be disclosed by the Board if it is under a statutory or Community obligation to do so, or disclosure is made in pursuance of an order of a court. The Board may disclose personal information to a person providing services to it in connection with any of the purposes listed in regulation 5 for which disclosure to the Board was authorised.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/277/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:13.114831+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."
}