The Local Authorities (Executive and Alternative Arrangements) (Modification of Enactments and Other Provisions) (Wales) Order 2002

Special educational needs — approval of independent schools

39.  In regulation 2(1) of the Education (Special Educational Needs) (Approval of Independent Schools) Regulations 1994(1) (interpretation)—

(a) after the definition of “child with a statement”, there shall be inserted—

““executive” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Local Government Act 2000;”;

and

(b) in the definition of “local authority”, for “acting in the discharge of their functions under any of the enactments specified in Schedule 1 to the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (enactments conferring functions assigned to the social services committee)”, there shall be substituted “which is, or whose executive (if any) is, responsible for exercising social services functions within the meaning of section 1A of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970(2) (meaning of “social services functions”)”.

(1)

S.I. 1994/651. There are amendments to regulation 2 which are not relevant to this Order.

(2)

1970 c. 42. Section 1A was inserted by section 102(3) of the Local Government Act 2000.