Further and Higher Education Act 1992

The Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 (c. 33)

91 (1) Section 5 of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 (disabled persons leaving special education) is amended as follows.

(2) for subsections (3) and (4) there is substituted—

“(3) In the following provisions of this section and in section 6 a person in respect of whom the appropriate officer has given his opinion that he is a disabled person is referred to as a “disabled student”.

(3A) The responsible authority shall give to the appropriate officer written notification for the purposes of subsection (5) of the date on which any disabled student will cease to be of compulsory school age, and the notification shall state—

(a) his name and address; and

(b) whether or not he intends to remain in full-time education and, if he does, the name of the school or other institution at which the education will be received;

and shall be given not earlier than twelve months, nor later than eight months, before that date.

(3B) Where, in the case of a disabled student over compulsory school age who is receiving relevant full-time education, that is—

(a) full-time education at a school; or

(b) full-time further or higher education at an institution other than a school;

it appears to the responsible authority that the student will cease to receive relevant full-time education on a date (“the leaving date”) on which he will be under the age of nineteen years and eight months, the responsible authority shall give written notification for the purposes of subsection (5) to the appropriate officer.

(3C) That notification shall state—

(a) his name and address; and

(b) the leaving date;

and shall be given not earlier than twelve months, nor later than eight months, before the leaving date.

(4) If at any time it appears to the responsible authority—

(a) that a disabled student has ceased to receive relevant full-time education or will cease to do so on a date less than 8 months after that time, and

(b) that no notification has been given under subsection (3B), but

(c) that, had the responsible authority for the time being been aware of his intentions 8 months or more before that date, they would have been required to give notification under that subsection with respect to him,

that authority shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable, give written notification for the purposes of subsection (5) to the appropriate officer of his name and address and of the date on which he ceased to receive, or will cease to receive, that education.”

(3) In subsection (5)—

(a) for “any person under subsection (3)” there is substituted “a student under subsection (3A) that he does not intend to remain in full-time education or under subsection (3B)”, and

(b) for “notification under subsection (3)” there is substituted “notification under subsection (3A) or (3B)”.

(4) In subsection (6)—

(a) for “(3)” in both places there is substituted “(3A) that he does not intend to remain in full-time education or under subsection (3B)”, and

(b) for the words from “a local education authority” to “establishment of further or higher education” there is substituted “the responsible authority that the person will be receiving relevant full-time education”.

(5) In subsection (9) (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “child” after “school or” there is inserted “as a student at”,

(b) in the definition of “the responsible authority” for paragraph (b) there is substituted—

“(b) in relation to a person receiving full-time further education or higher education at an institution within the further education sector or the higher education sector, means the governing body of the institution; and

(c) in relation to a person for whom a further education funding council has secured full-time further education at an institution (other than a school) outside the further education sector or the higher education sector, the council”,

(c) after “the Education Act 1944” there is inserted “or the Further and Higher Education Act 1992”, and

(d) for “that Act” there is substituted “those Acts”.

92 For section 6(1) of that Act (review of expected leaving dates from full-time education of disabled persons) there is substituted—

“6 (1) The responsible authority shall for the purposes of section 5 above keep under review the date when any disabled student is expected to cease to receive relevant full-time education.”