These Regulations make amendments to regulations that make provision for school placing requests and exclusion appeals and for the procedures to be followed by education appeal committees. These amendments will reinstate procedural deadlines which were in place prior to amendments made by S.S.I. 2020/128 and S.S.I. 2021/31 to respond to the disruption caused by the coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2)).

Regulation 2 amends time limits in the Education (Placing in Schools Etc—Deemed Decisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1982 relating to education authorities’ decisions on placing requests made under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980. It also amends time limits relating to the hearing of appeals by education appeal committees against those decisions and decisions on exclusions of pupils.

Regulation 3 amends time limits in the Education (Appeal Committee Procedures) (Scotland) Regulations 1982 relating to the hearing by education appeal committees of references from education authority decisions.

Regulation 4 amends time limits in the Additional Support for Learning (Placing Requests and Deemed Decisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 relating to education authorities’ decisions on placing requests made under the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004. It also amends time limits relating to the hearing of appeals by education appeal committees against those decisions.