{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/32",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Name and seal of governing body",
  "text": "(1) The governing body shall be known as “The governing body of....” with the addition of the name of the school as for the time being set out in the school’s instrument of government.\n(2) The application of the seal of the governing body must be authenticated by the signature—\n(a) of the chairman of the governing body, or\n(b) of some other member authorised either generally or specially by the governing body to act for that purpose,\ntogether with the signature of any other member.\n(3) Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by or on behalf of the governing body and—\n(a) to be duly executed under the seal of the governing body, or\n(b) to be signed or executed by a person authorised by the governing body to act in that behalf,\nshall be received in evidence and treated, without further proof, as being so made or issued unless the contrary is shown.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 applied (with modifications) (31.10.2005) by The New Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2912), regs. 1(1), 31"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 applied (with modifications) (31.10.2005) by The New Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2912), regs. 1(1), 30(1) (with reg. 30(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 in force at 31.10.2005 for W. by S.I. 2005/2910, art. 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 partly in force; Sch. 1 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 216; Sch. 1 para. 2 in force for E. at 1.10.2002 by S.I. 2002/2439, art. 3 (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 4, Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:01.287129+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."
}