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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-foundation-body-wales-regulations-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2001/2709",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Foundation Body) (Wales) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-foundation-body-wales-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Criminal convictions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (5) below, a person shall be disqualified for holding, or for continuing to hold, office as a member of a foundation body where any of sub-paragraphs (2) to (4) or (6) below apply to him or her.\n(2) This sub-paragraph applies to a person if—\n(a) within the period of five years ending with the date immediately preceding the date on which that person’s appointment would otherwise have taken effect; or\n(b) since that person’s appointment,\nhe or she has been convicted, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, of any offence and has had passed on him or her a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies to a person if within the period of 20 years ending with the date immediately preceding the date on which that person’s appointment would otherwise have taken effect, that person has been convicted as aforesaid of any offence and has had passed on him or her a sentence of imprisonment for a period of not less than two and a half years.\n(4) This sub-paragraph applies to a person who has at any time been convicted as aforesaid of any offence and has had passed on him or her a sentence of imprisonment for a period of not less than five years.\n(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2) to (4) above, there shall be disregarded any conviction by or before a court outside the United Kingdom of an offence which, if the facts giving rise to the offence had taken place in any part of the United Kingdom, would not have constituted an offence under the law in force in that part of the United Kingdom.\n(6) This sub -paragraph applies to a person who—\n(a) within the period of five years ending with the date immediately preceding the date on which his or her appointment would otherwise have taken effect; or\n(b) since his or her appointment,\nhas been convicted under section 547 of the Education Act 1996 (nuisance and disturbance on education premises) of an offence which took place on the premises of a school maintained by a local education authority or a grant maintained school and has been sentenced to a fine.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/2709/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
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