The Education (Special Educational Needs Code of Practice) (Appointed Day) (England) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3943 (C.135)

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Education (Special Educational Needs Code of Practice) (Appointed Day) (England) Order 2001

Made

5th December 2001

Laid before Parliament

10th December 2001

Coming into force

1st January 2002

In the exercise of the powers conferred by section 314(4) and 568(1) and (5) of the Education Act 1996(1) the Secretary of State for Education and Skills hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (Special Educational Needs Code of Practice) (Appointed Day) (England) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st January 2002.

(2) This Order applies in relation to England.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Appointed Day” means 1st January 2002;

“the 1994 Order” means the Education (Special Educational Needs Code of Practice) (Appointed Day) Order 1994(2).

Appointed Day

3.  The Special Educational Needs Code of Practice issued pursuant to section 314(4) of the Education Act 1996 on 3rd December 2001 shall come into effect on the Appointed Day.

Consequential and revocation

4.—(1) The Code of Practice on the Identification and Assessment of Special Educational Needs issued pursuant to the 1994 Order shall cease to have effect in so far as it relates to England on the Appointed Day.

(2) The 1994 Order is hereby revoked in so far as it relates to England.

Estelle Morris

Secretary of State for Education and Skills

5th December 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 1st January 2002 as the day on which the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice issued pursuant to section 313 of The Education Act 1996 on 3rd December 2001 by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in relation to England shall come into effect. This Code of Practice gives practical guidance in respect of the discharge by local education authorities and governing bodies of certain schools in England of their functions under Part IV of the Education Act 1996 (which relates to children with special educational needs). The Code replaces, in England, the Code of Practice on the Identification and Assessment of Special Educational Needs issued in 1994.

Copies of the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice can be obtained from the Department for Education and Skills, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BT.

(1)

1996 c. 56.

(2)

S.I. 1994/1414.