text: **27.**In regulation 30(7)(c) (unopposed appeals), after “10(4)(a)” insert “or (d)”. 
  
  **Amendment of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (First-tier Tribunal**
  **Recommendations Power) Regulations 2017**
  
  **28.**The Special Educational Needs and Disability (First-tier Tribunal Recommendations Power) 
  
  Regulations 2017(**a**) are amended as follows. 
  
  **29.**In regulation 2 (interpretation), at the appropriate place insert— 
  
  ““coronavirus” means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); 
  ”. 
  
  **30.**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 
  time or by a certain day is to be read instead as a requirement for such action to be taken as 
  soon as reasonably practicable. 
  
  (2) The coronavirus exception applies where it is not reasonably practicable for a person 
  to meet a requirement referred to in paragraph (1) for a reason relating to the incidence or 
  transmission of coronavirus. 
  
  (3) The following regulations are specified for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2)— 
  
  (a) regulation 6(3) and (6) (responding to health care recommendations); and 
  
  (b) regulation 7(1) and (4) (responding to social care recommendations).”. 