# Education (No. 2) Act 1986, Section 6: Connection with local business community.

Extent: E+W

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)—
(a) to have regard—
(i) to the extent to which they and the other governors are members of the local business community; and
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/61/section/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-no-2-act-1986/section-6
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