{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-educational-needs-regulations-1994/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-educational-needs-regulations-1994/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1047",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Special Educational Needs) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-educational-needs-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Transfer of statements",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a child in respect of whom a statement is maintained moves from the areaof the authority which maintains the statement (“the old authority”) into that of another (“the new authority”).\n(2) The old authority shall transfer the statement to the new authority, and from the date of the transfer—\n(a) the statement shall be treated for the purposes of the new authority’s duties and functions under Part III of the Actand these Regulations as if it had been made by the new authority on the date on which it was made by the old authority, and\n(b) where the new authority make an assessment under section 167 and the old authority have supplied the new authority with advice obtained in pursuance of a previous assessment regulation 6(5) shall apply as if the new authority had obtained the advice on the date on which the old authority obtained it.\n(3) The new authority shall within 6 weeks of the date of the transfer serve a notice on the child’s parent informing him—\n(a) that the statement has been transferred,\n(b) whether they proposed to make an assessment under section 167, and\n(c) when they propose to review the statement in accordance with paragraph (4).\n(4) The new authority shall review the statement under section 172(5) before the expiry of whichever of the following two periods expires later—\n(a) the period of twelve months beginning with the making of the statement, or as the case may be, with the previous review, or\n(b) the period of three months beginning with the date of the transfer.\n(5) Where by virtue of the transfer the new authority come under a duty to arrange the child’s attendance at a school specified in the statement but in light of the child’s move that attendance is no longer practicable the new authority may arrange for the child’s attendance at another school appropriate for the child until such time as it is possible to amendthe statement in accordance with paragraph 10 of Schedule 10 to the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1047/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:43.597028+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."
}