1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART 2

   1. 3. Assessment or statement declined before commencement

4. PART 3 etc

   1. 4. Application of Part 3

   2. 5. Consideration of whether to make assessment not completed before commencement date

   3. 6. Request for assessment not determined before commencement date

   4. 7. Assessment not completed before commencement date

5. PART 4 etc

   1. 8. Appeals against decision not to comply with request to carry out assessment

   2. 9. Appeals against decision not to make statement

   3. 10. Appeals against determination to cease to maintain statement

6. PART 5 etc

   1. 11. Continued application of EA 1996 in relation to pre- and post-commencement statements

   2. 12. Duty to secure EHC needs assessment for children transferring to post-16 institution in 2015

   3. 13. Duty to consider EHC needs assessment for children in year 6

   4. 14. Duty to secure EHC needs assessment for other children etc in period 2015-2018

   5. 15. Power to secure earlier EHC needs assessment

   6. 16. Exceptions to Articles 12 to 15: exceptional personal circumstances and appeals

   7. 17. Children etc for whom EHC needs assessment cannot be secured before 1st April 2018

   8. 18. Persons to whom notice of EHC needs assessment must be given

   9. 19. Effect of providing notice

   10. 20. Procedure for EHC assessment

   11. 21. Effect of decision to prepare EHC plan following EHC needs assessment

   12. 22. Effect of decision not to prepare EHC plan following EHC needs assessment

   13. 23. Power to treat re-assessment under EA 1996 as re-assessment under 2014 Act

   14. 24. Effect of decision to replace statement following re-assessment

   15. 25. Effect of decision not to replace statement following re-assessment

   16. 26. Local authority ceasing to maintain statement

7. PART 6

   1. 27. Learning difficulty assessment in progress on commencement date

   2. 28. Young people who have had a pre-commencement learning difficulty assessment

   3. 29. Duty to anticipate application of section 36 of the 2014 Act

8. PART 7 etc

   1. 30. Children etc with an EHC plan who are detained

9. Signature

10. Explanatory Note