{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed/section-196",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed/section-196.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/35",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1993 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed",
  "path": "section/196",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "196",
  "heading": "Choice of school: child with statement of special educational needs.",
  "text": "(1) Subsections (2) and (3) below apply where a local education authority are required by virtue of section 192(3) of this Act to serve a school attendance order in respect of a child for whom they maintain a statement under section 168 of this Act.\n(2) Where the statement specifies the name of a school that school shall be named in the order.\n(3) Where the statement does not specify the name of a school—\n(a) the authority shall, in accordance with paragraph 10 of Schedule 10 to this Act, amend the statement so that it specifies the name of a school, and\n(b) that school shall then be named in the order.\n(4) Where—\n(a) a school attendance order is in force in respect of a child for whom the local education authority maintain a statement under section 168 of this Act, and\n(b) the name of the school specified in the statement is changed,\nthe local education authority shall amend the order accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 196(1)-(3) excluded (28.7.1994) by S.I. 1994/2038, art. 3, Sch. 4 para. 9(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 196(4) excluded (28.7.1994) by S.I. 1994/2038, art. 3, Sch. 4 para. 10(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/35/section/196",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:55.204351+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."
}