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The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006

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15.—(1) Nothing in these Regulations shall be taken to prevent the keeping of an admission or attendance register by means of a computer, but where such a register is so kept the following paragraphs of this regulation shall apply for the purpose of modifying the requirements of these Regulations.

(2) The requirements of regulation 4 shall not be treated as satisfied unless an additional back-up copy of the admission register and the attendance register is made not less than once a month in the form of an electronic, micro-fiche or printed copy.

(3) The requirements of regulations 10 and 11 shall not be treated as satisfied unless the persons authorised to inspect and take extracts from the admission register and the attendance register are permitted to inspect and take extracts from those registers kept by means of a computer and the additional back-up copies made in accordance with paragraph (2).

(4) The requirements of regulation 13 shall not be treated as satisfied unless, where any correction to an original entry in the registers is made, any register kept by means of a computer and any print made of any such register after the correction distinguish clearly between the original entry and the correction.

(5) The requirements of regulation 14 shall not be treated as satisfied unless each additional back-up copy of the admissions register and the attendance register made in accordance with paragraph (2) and relating to a particular school year is retained for a period of three years after the end of that school year.

(6) A print of a register produced by means of a computer shall for the purposes of regulation 14 be taken to be made in ink.

(7) The provisions of this regulation are without prejudice to the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998(1).

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