{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-no-2-act-1986/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-no-2-act-1986/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/61",
  "legislation_title": "Education (No. 2) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-no-2-act-1986",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Connection with local business community.",
  "text": "The instrument of government for any county, controlled or maintained special school shall provide for it to be the duty of the governors concerned, in co-opting any person to be a member of the governing body (otherwise than as a foundation governor)—\n(a) to have regard—\n(i) to the extent to which they and the other governors are members of the local business community; and\n(ii) to any representations made to the governing body as to the desirability of increasing the connection between the governing body and that community; and\n(b) where it appears to them that no governor of the school is a member of the local business community, or that it is desirable to increase the number of governors who are, to co-opt a person who appears to them to be a member of that community.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/61/section/6",
    "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."
}