{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-learning-needs-and-education-tribunal-wales-act-2018/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-learning-needs-and-education-tribunal-wales-act-2018/section-32.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2018/2",
  "legislation_title": "Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-learning-needs-and-education-tribunal-wales-act-2018",
  "path": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Reconsideration by local authorities of decisions of governing bodies under section 31",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) a child, a child's parent or a young person has been notified of a decision of a governing body of a maintained school under section 31, and\n(b) the child, the child's parent or the young person makes a request within a prescribed period to the local authority responsible for the child or young person for it to decide whether the governing body's duty to maintain the plan should cease.\n(2) The local authority must decide whether the governing body should cease to maintain the plan.\n(3) The local authority must notify the governing body and the child or young person and, in the case of a child, the child's parent of—\n(a) the decision, and\n(b) the reasons for the decision.\n(4) If the local authority decides that the plan should be maintained, the governing body must continue to maintain the plan.\n(5) If the local authority decides that the plan should not be maintained, the governing body must cease to maintain the plan, subject to section 33.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 32(1)(a)(b) modified (1.9.2021) by The Additional Learning Needs (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/401), regs. 1(2), 35(1)(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 32(1)(a) modified (1.9.2021) by The Additional Learning Needs (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/401), regs. 1(2), 37(1)(p)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 32(1)(b) modified (1.9.2021) by The Additional Learning Needs (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/401), regs. 1(2), 37(1)(q)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 32(3) modified (1.9.2021) by The Additional Learning Needs (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/401), regs. 1(2), 35(1)(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 32(3) modified (1.9.2021) by The Additional Learning Needs (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/401), regs. 1(2), 37(1)(r)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 2.11.2020 for specified purposes by S.I. 2020/1182, reg. 3(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2021 for specified purposes by S.I. 2021/373, arts. 3, 4 (as amended by S.I. 2021/735, art. 2(2)(a) and S.I. 2021/938, art. 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2021 for specified purposes by S.I. 2021/373, arts. 6, 7 (as amended by S.I. 2021/735, art. 2(3)(a) and S.I. 2021/938, art. 2(4)(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.1.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2021/1245, arts. 3(c), 4 (with art. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.1.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2021/1244, art. 3(c) (with arts. 4-21) (as amended by S.I. 2021/1428, art. 3; and (10.6.2022) by S.I. 2022/663, art. 3; and (21.8.2023) by S.I. 2023/932, art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.1.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2021/1243, art. 3(c) (with arts. 4-23) (as amended by S.I. 2021/1428, art. 2; (10.6.2022) by S.I. 2022/663, art. 2 and (21.8.2023) by S.I. 2023/932, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I7",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/891, art. 3(c) (with arts. 4-25) (as amended (21.8.2023) by S.I. 2023/932, art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I8",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/894, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I9",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/892, art. 3(c) (with arts. 2, 4-18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I10",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/896, art. 3(c) (with arts. 4-22) (as amended (21.8.2023) by S.I. 2023/932, art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I11",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/895, arts. 3(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I12",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/897, art. 3(c) (with arts. 1(8), 4-21) (as amended (21.8.2023) by S.I. 2023/932, art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I13",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/898, arts. 2(c), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I14",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/893, art. 4 (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I15",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.9.2025 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/893, art. 2(c) (with art. 1(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2018/2/section/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:08.644876+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}