# Education Reform Act 1988, Section 47: Community Schools.

Extent: E+W

(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.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a school is a community school if—
(a) activities other than school activities (“non-school activities") are carried on on the school premises; and
(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.
(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—
(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
(b) solely for the purposes of non-school activities so carried on;
as if all activities so carried on were school activities.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/40/section/47 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-47
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