text: **EXPLANATORY NOTE**
  
  *(This note is not part of the Regulations)*
  
  These Regulations make amendments to secondary legislation relating to special educational 
  needs and disability in order to provide exceptions to time limits set out in that legislation where 
  they cannot be met because of a reason relating to the incidence or transmission of coronavirus. 
  
  Regulation 2 contains review and expiry provisions. The Secretary of State is required to review 
  the effectiveness of the Regulations during the period in which they have effect. The Regulations 
  cease to have effect on 25th September 2020. 
  
  Regulations 3 to 14 amend the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 (‘the 
  SEND Regulations 2014’). 
  
  Regulation 5 inserts a glossing provision into the SEND Regulations 2014 which relaxes certain 
  requirements in those Regulations for actions to be taken within specified time limits where it is 
  not reasonably practicable for a person to meet those requirements for a reason relating to the 
  incidence or transmission of coronavirus. Instead, any such requirement is to be read as a 
  requirement for such action to be taken as soon as reasonably practicable. 
  
  Regulations 6 to 14 make textual amendments to the SEND Regulations 2014 to relax time limits. 