Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Individual Performance Information) (Identification of Individual Pupils) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 14th June 1997.

Identification of individual pupils

2. For the purposes of subsection (2) of section 537A of the Education Act 1996 (which provides that in that section "individual performance information" means information about the performance in certain assessments, examinations and qualifications of individual pupils identified in the prescribed manner) the manner of identification of individual pupils is hereby prescribed as being by-

(a)gender; and

(b)any one of the following-

(i)surname and initial or initials;

(ii)surname and first name or names; and

(iii)number or letter (or numbers or letters) or any combination of these, enabling the identity of the individual pupil to be ascertained by use of the appropriate key.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 537A(2) of the Education Act 1996 provides that-

• ""individual performance information" means information about the performance of individual pupils (identified in the prescribed manner)-

  (a)

  in any assessment made for the purposes of the National Curriculum or in accordance with a baseline assessment scheme (within the meaning of Chapter I of Part IV of the Education Act 1997);

  (b)

  in any prescribed public examination;

  (c)

  in connection with the attainment of any vocational qualification; or

  (d)

  in any such other assessment or examination, or in connection with the attainment of any such other qualification, as may be prescribed".

These Regulations prescribe the manner of identification of the individual pupil in respect of whom any such information relates.