The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2014

Amendments to the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Rules 2008

24.  In rule 20 (the application notice)(1)—

(a) for paragraph (1)(c) substitute—

“(c) in a special educational needs case—

(i) within 2 months after written notice of the decision being challenged was sent to the applicant; or

(ii) within 1 month from the date of issue of the mediation certificate if that date would be a later date than the date calculated by reference to paragraph (i);”;

(b) for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) The applicant must send with the application notice—

(a) a copy of any written record of any decision under challenge,

(b) any statement of reasons for that decision that the applicant has or can reasonably obtain, and

(c) in a special educational needs case to which section 55(3) of the Children and Families Act 2014 (cases in which an appeal may be made only if a mediation certificate has been issued) applies, a copy of any certificate issued under subsection (4) or (5) of that section, as the case may be.”

(1)

Rule 20 was amended by S.I. 2011/651.