{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/32",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Clerk to the governing body",
  "text": "Regulations may make provision—\n(a) requiring the appointment of a clerk to the governing body of a maintained school and authorising or requiring the appointment of clerks to committees of the governing body;\n(b) prescribing the body by whom any such appointment is to be made and any restrictions or other requirements relating to any such appointment;\n(c) as to the dismissal of any such clerk and the procedure to be followed in connection with his dismissal;\n(d) authorising the governing body or a committee of the governing body, where the clerk fails to attend a meeting of theirs, to appoint one of their number to act as clerk for the purposes of the meeting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 1.3.2003 except in relation to W. by S.I. 2003/124, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 31.10.2005 for W. by S.I. 2005/2910, art. 4, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:01.287129+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}