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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-act-2001/schedule-8/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/10",
  "legislation_title": "Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-act-2001",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Time limits with respect to assessments",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 3 of Schedule 26 (manner and timing of assessments under section 323) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (2), for “paragraph 10” substitute “ paragraph 2A ”.\n(3) For sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) substitute—\n“(3) Regulations may provide—\n(a) that where a local education authority are under a duty under section 323, 329 or 329A to serve any notice, the duty must be performed within the prescribed period,\n(b) that where a local education authority have served a notice under section 323(1) or 329A(3) on a child’s parent, they must decide within the prescribed period whether or not to make an assessment of the child’s educational needs,\n(c) that where a request has been made to a local education authority under section 329(1), they must decide within the prescribed period whether or not to comply with the request, and\n(d) that where a local education authority are under a duty to make an assessment, the duty must be performed within the prescribed period.\n(4) Provision made under sub-paragraph (3)—\n(a) may be subject to prescribed exceptions, and\n(b) does not relieve the authority of the duty to serve a notice, or make a decision or assessment, which has not been served or made within the prescribed period.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 14 wholly in force at 1.9.2002; Sch. 8 para. 14(3) in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes see s. 43(4); Sch. 8 para. 14 in force to the extent not already in force for E. at 1.1.2002 by S.I. 2001/2217, art. 5, Sch. Pt. II (as amended by S.I. 2001/2614, art. 4); Sch. 8 para. 14 in force for specified purposes for W. at 1.4.2002 by S.I. 2002/74, art. 5, Sch. Pt. 2 and Sch. 8 para. 14 in force so far as not already in force at 1.9.2002 by S.I. 2002/2217, art. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. 1"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/10/schedule/8/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:07.435588+00:00"
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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."
}