{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-provision-of-information-by-local-authorities-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-provision-of-information-by-local-authorities-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2002/157",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Educational Needs (Provision of Information by Local Authorities ) (Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-provision-of-information-by-local-authorities-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations are called the Special Educational Needs (Provision of Information by Local Authorities) (Wales) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“health authority” (“awdurdod iechyd”) has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 1977;\n...\n“statement” (“datganiad”) means a statement of special educational needs made under section 324 of the Education Act 1996.\n(3) These Regulations apply only in relation to Wales.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(1) substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Subordinate Legislation) (Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1142), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 9(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (5.5.2010) by virtue of The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Subordinate Legislation) (Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1142), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 9(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 1(4) omitted (31.10.2005) by virtue of The Education Act 2002 (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2913), regs. 1(1), 14(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.4.2002, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and the Health Act 1999 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/157/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:14:52.599503+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."
}