{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-act-2001/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-act-2001/section-9.json",
  "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": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Duty to specify named school",
  "text": "In section 324 of the 1996 Act (statement of special educational needs), after subsection (4) insert—\n“(4A) Subsection (4)(b) does not require the name of a school or institution to be specified if the child’s parent has made suitable arrangements for the special educational provision specified in the statement to be made for the child.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes see s. 43(4)(6); s. 9 in force for E. at 1.1.2002 by S.I. 2001/2217, art. 5, Sch. Pt. II; S.I. 2001/2614, art. 4; s. 9 in force for W. at 1.4.2002 by S.I. 2002/74, art. 5, Sch. Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/10/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:07.435588+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."
}