{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education Reform Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Community Schools.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to any school to which section 44 or 45 of this Act for the time being applies which is a community school.\n(2) For the purposes of this section, a school is a community school if—\n(a) activities other than school activities (“non-school activities\") are carried on on the school premises; and\n(b) all non-school activities which are so carried on are carried on under the management or control of the governing body of the school.\n(3) A scheme may provide for applying sections 44(3), 45(10) and 46 of and Schedule 3 to this Act in relation to persons employed to work—\n(a) partly for the purposes of school activities and partly for the purposes of non-school activities carried on on the premises of a school to which this section applies; or\n(b) solely for the purposes of non-school activities so carried on;\nas if all activities so carried on were school activities.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/40/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:49.452107+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."
}