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Regulation 1 Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Special Educational Needs (Provision of Information by Local Education, Authorities) (England) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st September 2001.

(2)

In these Regulations—

  • “health authority” has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 1977f1;

  • “social services authority” means a local authority for the purposes of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970f2 acting in the discharge of such functions as are referred to in section 1A of that Act, and

  • “statement” means a statement of special educational needs made under section 324 of the Education Act 1996.

(3)

These Regulations apply only in relation to England.

(4)

Nothing in these Regulations applies in relation to—

(a)

nursery schools, or

(b)

children under compulsory school age.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1977 c. 49; amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and the Health Act 1999 (c. 32).

f2

1970 c. 42; section 1A was inserted by the Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22), section 102(3).