The Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (General Provisions and Disability Claims Procedure) Regulations 2002

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1995 Act” means the Disability Discrimination Act 1995;

“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;

“the case statement period” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 18(1);

“child” means the person in relation to whom a parent makes, or may make, a claim;

“claim” refers to a claim of unlawful discrimination under Chapter 1 of Part IV of the 1995 Act;

“the clerk to the tribunal” means the person appointed by the Secretary of the Tribunal to act in that capacity at one or more hearings;

“hearing” means any sitting of the tribunal constituted for the purpose of receiving evidence, hearing addresses and witnesses or doing anything lawfully requisite to enable the tribunal to reach a decision on the claim or any question;

“parent” means a parent who has made, or may make, a claim to the tribunal under section 28I(1) of the 1995 Act;

“the President” means the President from time to time of the tribunal;

“records” means the records of the tribunal;

“the Secretary of the Tribunal” means the person for the time being acting as the Secretary of the office of the tribunal;

“the tribunal” means the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal but where the President has determined pursuant to regulation 4(1) that its jurisdiction is to be exercised by more than one tribunal, it means, in relation to any proceedings, the tribunal to which the proceedings have been referred by the President;

“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, any day from 25th December to 1st January inclusive, Good Friday, the first Monday in May, any day in August or a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1).

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1971 c. 80.