Local Government Finance Act 1988

9 (1) Regulations under this Schedule may include provision that a certification officer shall supply to a registration officer for a charging authority such information as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below and fulfils the following conditions—

(a) it is in the possession or control of the certification officer,

(b) the registration officer requests the certification officer to supply it, and

(c) it is requested by the registration officer for the purpose of carrying out his functions under this Part.

(2) The information is—

(a) the name of each person who (on the day the request is made) is undertaking a full-time course of education at the educational establishment of the certification officer and has his sole or main residence in the area of the charging authority, and

(b) the address of the sole or main residence of each such person.

(3) The regulations may include provision that the information is to be supplied in a prescribed form and within a prescribed period of the request being made.

(4) A certification officer is an individual who is a certification officer by virtue of regulations under section 30 above.

(5) The educational establishment of a certification officer is the educational establishment as regards which he is the certification officer.