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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-detained-persons-regulations-2015/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/62",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Educational Needs and Disability (Detained Persons) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-detained-persons-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Where the appropriate person does not wish to or fails to pursue mediation",
  "text": "(1) Where an appropriate person who is required to obtain a mediation certificate informs the mediation adviser that he or she does not wish to pursue mediation, the mediation adviser must issue a mediation certificate under section 55(4) of the Act within 3 working days of being informed by the appropriate person.\n(2) The mediation adviser may not issue such a certificate if the appropriate person did not contact the mediation adviser within 2 months of the date of the notice issued by the home authority.\n(3) An appropriate person may seek leave to appeal to the First-tier Tribunal not withstanding that he or she is required to obtain a mediation certificate and a mediation adviser has not issued a certificate to him or her, where the appropriate person has failed to comply with regulation 18 and the time for doing so has elapsed.",
  "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/2015/62/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:49.152451+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."
}