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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-education-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1996/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-education-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1996/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/710",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Education) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-education-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Notification of transfer of functions",
  "text": "(1) In the case of any child to whom this paragraph applies the transferee authority shall before the expiry of one month beginning on the reorganisation date notify in writing the child’s parent of—\n(a) the transfer to the authority of the functions under Part III of the 1993 Act of the transferor authority; and\n(b) the name of the officer of the authority from whom further information concerning the authority’s functions under that Part with respect to the child may be obtained.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies in the case of any child—\n(a) for whom immediately before the reorganisation date the transferor authority maintain a statement under section 168 or 175 of the 1993 Act;\n(b) on whose parent the transferor authority have served a notice under section 167(1) or 174(2) of the 1993 Act (notice of proposal to make assessment of educational needs) but have not given the notice referred to, in the case of a notice under section 167(1), in section 167(4) or (6) or, in the case of a notice under section 174(2), in section 174(5) or (6);\n(c) in respect of whom the transferor authority have given the notice referred to in section 167(4) or 174(5) of the 1993 Act (notice of decision to make assessment of educational needs) but have not, before the reorganisation date, completed making an assessment pursuant to the notice;\n(d) in respect of whom the transferor authority’s duty under section 167(3), 173(1) or 175(1) of the 1993 Act (duty to make assessment of educational needs) is transferred under a section 17 order to the transferee authority;\n(e) on whose parent the transferor authority have served under paragraph 2 of Schedule 10 to the 1993 Act a copy of a proposed statement under section 168 of that Act but in respect of whom the transferor authority, immediately before the reorganisation date, did not maintain such a statement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/710/regulation/15",
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  },
  "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."
}