# The Education (Special Educational Needs) (England) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001

S.I. 2001/2612 · made 18 July 2001

These Regulations amend the Education (Special Educational Needs) (England) Regulations 2001 by substituting a new commencement date of 1st January 2002 for the previous commencement date of 1st September 2001. They also make consequential amendments to the transitional provisions in the Education (Special Educational Needs) (England) Regulations 2001.

Made under: Education Act 1996 (Section 316A, Section 322, Section 324, Section 325, Section 326A, Section 328, Section 329, Section 329A, Section 336A, Section 569, Schedule 26 paragraph 2, Schedule 26 paragraph 3, Schedule 27 paragraph 2, Schedule 27 paragraph 2B, Schedule 27 paragraph 5, Schedule 27 paragraph 6, Schedule 27 paragraph 7, Schedule 27 paragraph 8, Schedule 27 paragraph 11)

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## Introductory text

EDUCATION, ENGLAND
Made 18th July 2001
Laid before Parliament 19th July 2001
Coming into force 31st August 2001
The Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in exercise of the power conferred on her by sections 316A(2), 322(4), 324(2), 325(2A) and (2B), 326A(4), 328(1), (3A), and (3B), 329(2A), 329A(9), 336A(1) and 569(1), (2), (4) and (5) of, and paragraphs 2, 3(1), (3) and (4) of Schedule 26, and paragraphs 2(3), 2B(3), 5(3), 6(3), 7(1) and (2), 8(3A) and (5), 11 (2A) and (4) of Schedule 27 to, the Education Act 1996, hereby makes the following Regulations:

## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These regulations—
(a) may be cited as The Education (Special Educational Needs) (England) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001;
(b) apply only in relation to England, and
(c) shall come into force on 31st August 2001.

## 2 Citation, commencement and interpretation

In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the Education (Special Educational Needs) (England) Regulations 2001.

## 3 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Expressions used in these Regulations and the principal regulations have the same meaning in these Regulations as in the principal regulations.

## 4 Citation, commencement and interpretation

The principal regulations shall be amended as follows—
(a) in regulations 1(2), 28(1), 28(5), 28(6), 28(7), 28(8), 28(9), 28(10) and 28(11) the words “1st January 2002” shall be substituted for the words “1st September 2001”;
(b) in regulation 28(3) the words “1st May 2002” shall be substituted for the words “1st January 2002” on both occasions on which those words occur, and
(c) the following words shall be inserted after regulation 28(11)—
“(12) The first occasion before which an authority must, under regulation 19 of these Regulations, ensure that a child’s statement is amended, shall be 15th February 2003.”

## Signature

Estelle Morris
Secretary of State for Education and Skills
18th July 2001

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (Special Educational Needs) (England) Regulations 2001 by substituting a new commencement date of 1st January 2002 for the previous commencement date of 1st September 2001. They also make consequential amendments to the transitional provisions in the Education (Special Educational Needs) (England) Regulations 2001.

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