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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/schedule-8/paragraph-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
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  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision (including provision modifying the effect of paragraph 14) as to the meetings and proceedings of governing bodies.\n(2) The instrument of government for a school may make provision as to the meetings and proceedings of the school’s governing body.\n(3) The provision that may be made under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) includes, in particular, provision—\n(a) for the election by the governors of a school of one of their number to be chairman, and one to be vice-chairman, of the governing body;\n(b) for the period for which the chairman and vice-chairman are to be elected;\n(c) for the establishment by the governing body of committees (which may include persons who are not members of the governing body) and for the constitution, meetings and proceedings of committees so established;\n(d) for the delegation of functions of the governing body, in such circumstances as may be specified, to committees established by that body, to any member of that body or to the head teacher;\n(e) for the chairman, or such other member of a governing body as may be specified, to have power in specified circumstances to discharge any of the governing body’s functions as a matter of urgency; and\n(f) as to the quorum required for the purposes of making appointments of parent governors in accordance with any provision made by virtue of section 81 or when business is transacted by governors of a particular category.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (3) “specified” means specified in regulations or the instrument of government (as the case may be).",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/schedule/8/paragraph/15",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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