{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-529",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-529.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996",
  "path": "section/529",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "529",
  "heading": "Power to accept gifts on trust for educational purposes.",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may accept, hold and administer any property on trust for purposes connected with education.\n(1A) Any intention on the part of a local authority in England that a school should be vested in the authority as trustees shall be treated for the purposes of sections 7 and 10 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 as an intention to establish a new community school, community special school or maintained nursery school (so that proposals for that purpose shall be published in accordance with those sections); and Schedule 2 to that Act (proposals for establishment or discontinuance of schools in England) shall apply accordingly.\n(2) Any intention on the part of a local authority in Wales that a school ... should be vested in the authority as trustees shall be treated for for the purposes of sections 28 and 31 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 41 and 44 of the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 as an intention to establish a new community school, community special school or maintained nursery school (so that proposals for that purpose shall be published as required by those sections); and Schedule 6 to that Act (statutory proposals concerning schools in Wales and sections 48 to 55 of, and Schedule 3 to, that Act (school organisation proposals : procedure and implementation) shall apply accordingly.\n(3) Any school which in accordance with subsection (1A) or (2) is vested in a local authority as trustees shall be a community school. , a community special school or a maintained nursery school.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), Sch. 2 para. 7(2) (with Sch. 2 para. 7(4)(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 529(1A) inserted (25.5.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 3 para. 10(2); S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 529(1A) substituted (1.9.2026) by The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/855), regs. 1(2), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 529(2) inserted (25.5.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 3 para. 10(3)(a); S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 529(2) repealed (25.5.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 3 para. 10(3)(b), Sch. 18 Pt. 3; S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(o)(q)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 529(2) substituted (25.5.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 3 para. 10(3)(c); S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 529(2) substituted (1.10.2013) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 17(5)(a); S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 529(2) substituted (1.10.2013) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 17(5)(b); S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 529(3) inserted (25.5.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(a); S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 529(3) substituted (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1), Sch. 30 para. 145(b) (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 529(3) inserted (25.5.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b); S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(o)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/section/529",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:40.627017+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}