The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Pupil Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013
These Regulations provide that the Department of Education for Northern Ireland may disclose to the Statistics Board information in respect of individual pupils including those who have been students at any time since 1st September 2006 for the purpose of enabling that Board to carry out its functions in connection with the production of population statistics and the assessment of census returns.