text: **Citation and commencement**
  
  **1.**These Regulations may be cited as the Special Educational Needs and Disability 
  
  (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1st May 2020. 
  
  **Review and expiry**
  
  **2.**—(1) The Secretary of State must review the effectiveness of these Regulations during the 
  period for which they have effect. 
  
  (2) These Regulations cease to have effect on 25th September 2020. 
  
  **Amendment of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014**
  
  **3.**The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014(**c**) are amended as follows. 
  
  **4.**In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), at the appropriate place insert— 
  
  ““coronavirus” means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); 
  ”. 
  
  **5.**After regulation 2 (interpretation) insert— 
  
  “**Relaxation of time periods due to coronavirus exception**
  
  **2A.**—(1) Where the coronavirus exception applies, any requirement in any of the 
  regulations specified in paragraph (3) for action to be taken within a specified period of 