{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-tribunal-time-limits-wales-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3982",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Educational Needs Tribunal (Time Limits) (Wales) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-tribunal-time-limits-wales-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Compliance with parents' requests when an authority concedes an appeal to the Tribunal",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) if, under section 326A(2), an appeal to the Tribunal is treated as having been determined in favour of the parent making the appeal, the authority shall—\n(a) in the case of an appeal under section 325, make a statement within 5 weeks;\n(b) in the case of an appeal under section 328, 329 or 329A, the authority shall make an assessment within 4 weeks; and\n(c) in the case of an appeal under paragraph 8(3) of Schedule 27 against a determination not to comply with the parent’s request to substitute the name of a maintained school for the name of the school or institution specified in the statement, comply with that request within 2 weeks.\n(2) In each case the period shall begin on the day after the authority notifies the Tribunal that they have determined that they will not, or will no longer, oppose the appeal.\n(3) The authority need not comply with the time limits referred to in paragraph (1) if it is impractical to do so because—\n(a) exceptional personal circumstances affect the child or his parent during the relevant time period;\n(b) the child or his parent are absent from the area of the authority for a continuous period of not less than 2 weeks during the relevant time period;\n(c) the child’s parent indicates that he wishes to make representations to the authority about the content of the statement under paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 27 after the expiry of the 15 day period for making such representations provided for in paragraph 4(4) of that Schedule;\n(d) a meeting between the child’s parent and an officer of the authority has been held pursuant to paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 27 and the child’s parent under paragraph 4(2) of that Schedule has either required that another such meeting be arranged or has required that a meeting with the appropriate person be arranged, or\n(e) the authority have sent a written request to the National Assembly for Wales seeking its consent under section 347(5) to the child being educated at an independent school which is not approved by it and such consent has not been received by the authority within 3 weeks of the day on which the request was sent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3982/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:18:52.827226+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."
}