(1)Every education authority shall—
(a)set up and maintain such number of appeal committees; and
(b)make such other arrangements
as are necessary to enable references to be made under sections 28C, 28E(6), 28F(7), 28H and 63 of this Act and heard by the committees.
(2)An appeal committee set up under subsection (1) above shall be constituted in accordance with Schedule A1 to this Act.
(3)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for procedure in relation to references under section 28C of this Act and regulations made under this subsection may include provision—
(a)requiring the education authority to make information relevant to their decision available to the committee and to the parent referring that decision to the committee;
(b)deeming, for the purposes of this Act, an appeal committee to have confirmed the decision of an education authority on a placing request in the event of the committee’s not having complied with section 28E(3) of this Act within such period or before such date as may be prescribed in the regulations and different periods or dates may be so prescribed for different purposes;
(c)ancillary to or consequential upon provision made under paragraphs (a) and (b) above.