The Data Protection (Subject Access Modification) (Education) Order 2000
This Order provides for the partial exemption from the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998, which confer rights on data subjects to gain access to data held about them, of certain data (education records) where the exercise of those rights would be likely to cause serious harm to the physical or mental health or condition of the data subject or another person, or, in some circumstances, (except in the case of Scotland) would disclose information as to whether the data subject is or has been the subject of or may be at risk of child abuse which disclosure would not be in the best interests of that data subject. The Order does not apply to any data to which the Data Protection (Subject Access Modification) (Health) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/413) or any order made under section 38(1) of the Act applies (article 3(2)).