{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-groups-of-grantmaintained-schools-regulations-1994/regulation-33",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1041",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Groups of Grant–maintained Schools) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-groups-of-grantmaintained-schools-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Publication of proposals for leaving a group",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where the result of a ballot held in accordance with regulation 6 shows a simple majority of votes cast (by persons eligible to vote in the ballot) in favour of a school leaving a group, or where a second resolution has been passed in accordance with regulation 32.\n(2) Before the end of the period of four months beginning with the date on which the result of the ballot is determined or, as the case may be, the second resolution is passed in accordance with regulation 32 the governing body of the group shall–\n(a) publish proposals for the school to continue as a grant–maintained school outside the group in accordance with Part I of Schedule 3 to the 1993 Act with the modifications referred to in paragraph (5) below,\n(b) publish any notice in respect of the proposals for the time being required by any such provision, and\n(c) submit to the Secretary of State a copy of the published proposals.\n(3) The duty under paragraph (2) above also applies in respect of a school in the group where that school would otherwise be the only school in the group in respect of which no proposals to leave the group are published.\n(4) In these Regulations references to proposals published under this regulation include references to any proposals which have been modified by the Secretary of State.\n(5) The modifications to Schedule 3 to the 1993 Act are–\n(a) for paragraph 1(3)(c) there is substituted:\n“(c) state that, if the proposals are approved, the school will cease to be a member of the group of schools named in the proposals.”;\n(b) for paragraph 2(1)(b) there is substituted:\n“(b) state whether the school was a county, controlled, aided, maintained special or special agreement school immediately before it became grant– maintained, or, if established as a grant–maintained school, by whom it was established.”;\n(c) in paragraph 3(b) add at the end the words “outside the group”;\n(d) for paragraph 5(b) there is substituted:\n“(b) any person holding property on trust for the purpose of any school in the group.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1041/regulation/33",
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  },
  "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."
}