{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-no-2-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/61",
  "legislation_title": "Education (No. 2) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-no-2-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, every temporary governing body shall be constituted—\n(a) in accordance with the provisions of sections 3 and 7 of this Act, in the case of a school whose governing body will be required to be constituted in accordance with those provisions; and\n(b) in accordance with the provisions of sections 4 and 4A of this Act, in the case of a school whose governing body will be required to be constituted in accordance with those provisions.\n(2) For the purpose of the application of section 3, 4 4A or 7 of this Act in relation to the constitution of its temporary governing body, a new school shall be treated as having as registered pupils the maximum number of pupils referred to—\n(a) in the relevant proposal; or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In co-opting any person (otherwise than as a temporary foundation or teacher governor) to be a member of a temporary governing body of a new school which will be a county, controlled or maintained special school, the temporary governors concerned shall—\n(a) have regard—\n(i) to the extent to which they and the other temporary governors are members of the local business community; and\n(ii) to any representations made to the temporary governing body as to the desirability of increasing the connection between the temporary governing body and that community; and\n(b) where it appears to them that no temporary governor of the new school is a member of the local business community, or that it is desirable to increase the number of temporary governors who are, co-opt a person who appears to them to be a member of that community.\n(4) The first meeting of any temporary governing body shall be called—\n(a) by their clerk; or\n(b) where he fails to call it within such period as the local education authority consider reasonable, by the authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(b) substituted (1.1.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1), Sch. 19 para. 109(a); S.I. 1993/3106, art. 4, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 2(2) inserted (1.1.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1), Sch. 19 para. 109(b)(i); S.I. 1993/3106, art. 4, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(b) repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 303(4), 307(1)(3), Sch. 19 para. 109(b)(ii), Sch. 21 Pt. I; S.I. 1994/507, art. 4, Sch.2"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/61/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:53:55.955821+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}