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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/32",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Collaboration between schools",
  "text": "Regulations may—\n(a) enable the governing bodies of two or more maintained schools in England to arrange for any of their functions to be discharged jointly or by a joint committee of theirs,\n(b) provide for the appointment by two or more governing bodies of a joint committee of those governing bodies for the purposes of discharging any functions in pursuance of any such arrangements, and\n(c) provide that any enactment relating to those functions or the governing bodies by whom they are to be discharged is to have effect subject to all necessary modifications in its application in relation to those functions and the governing bodies by whom they are to be discharged.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(a) inserted (16.11.2012) by Education (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 7), ss. 9(3)(a), 33(2); S.I. 2012/2656, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 in force at 1.3.2003 except in relation to W. by S.I. 2003/124, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 26 in force at 2.1.2008 for W. by S.I. 2007/3611, art. 4(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/26",
    "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."
  }
}