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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3102",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Initial Governing Instruments) Regulations 1993",
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  "heading": "First governors",
  "text": "(1) The Governing Body shall include such number of first governors as is specified in the Proposals.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below—\n(a) at least two of the first governors shall (on the date or dates on which they respectively take office) be parents of registered pupils at the school; and\n(b) at least two of the first governors shall (on the date or dates on which they respectively take office) be members of the local community,\nbut one person may satisfy both requirements.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below, the Governing Body, in appointing first governors, shall secure that those governors include persons appearing to them to be members of the local business community although such persons may also satisfy one or both of the requirements of sub-paragraph (2) above.\n(4) The provisions of sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) above are subject to subsections (5) and (6) of section 63 of the 1993 Act (which concern respectively the determination of initial first governors in the case of former county schools and the appointment of first governors in the case of schools established by the funding authority).",
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