
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Special Educational Needs) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 18th July 1988.
2 
The Education (Special Educational Needs) Regulations 1983 are hereby amended as follows —
(a) in regulation 2(4) after the definition of the expression “the Act of 1981” there shall be added the following —“
 “the Act of 1986” means the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986;”;
(b) in regulation 2(4) at the end there shall be added the following —“
 “statutory services” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1986.”;
(c) in regulation 11(1) in sub-paragraph (d) there shall be deleted the word “or” in the second place it occurs;
(d) in regulation 11(1) in sub-paragraph (e) there shall be added at the end the word “or”;
(e) in regulation 11(1) at the end there shall be added the following new sub-paragraph —“
(f) for the purposes of an assessment of the needs of the child with respect to the provision of any statutory services for him being carried out by officers of a social services authority by virtue of arrangements made under section 5(5) of the Act of 1986.”;
(f) for paragraph (2) of regulation 12 there shall be substituted the following paragraph —“
(2) The old authority shall transfer the statement to the new authority.”;
(g) after paragraph (2) of regulation 12 there shall be added the following paragraph —“
(2A) Where the statement has been transferred as aforesaid and the old authority had received an opinion in pursuance of section 5(1) or (2) of the Act of 1986 or had given notification for the purposes of section 5(5) of that Act, they shall so inform the new authority.”.
Kenneth Baker
Secretary of State for Education and Science
14th June 1988Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
16th June 1988