Keeping the plan
8.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations a plan must be kept by the education authority which has prepared it, at such place as it considers appropriate and must be available for inspection there without any charge or fee by the persons mentioned in paragraph (2) below on request during normal hours of business of that place.
(2) The persons referred to in paragraph (1) above are–
(a)in the case of a child to whom the plan relates, the child’s parent; and
(b)in the case of a young person to whom the plan relates–
(i)the young person, or
(ii)if the education authority are satisfied that the young person lacks capacity to understand the plan, the young person’s parent.
(3) A copy of the plan must be kept at the school at which, for the time being, provision is being made for the additional support needs of the child or young person to whom the plan relates, and must, for the purposes of the provisions of regulation 10(3) of the Schools General (Scotland) Regulations 1975(1), be deemed to be part of the pupil’s progress record kept for that child or young person, and for the purpose of construing that regulation in relation to such copy any reference in those Regulations to a pupil’s progress record includes a reference to that copy.
S.I. 1975/1135; as amended by S.I. 1994/351 and S.S.I. 2003/581.