{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-england-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-england-regulations-1999/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2163",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Government) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-england-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation of “governing body”",
  "text": "Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to the governing body, is a reference to the governing body or temporary governing body (however constituted) of any school or (as the case may be) new school to which the provision applies, and any reference to a governor is a reference to a member of such a governing body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See for the purposes of the composition of governing bodies on transition to the new schools framework, regulations 18 and 19 of the First Transitional Regulations, regulations 13, 30 and 49 of the School Organisation Regulations and regulation 13 of the School Organisation Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked by S.I. 2003/348, reg. 2 (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1558",
      "affecting_title": "New Schools (General) (England) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2163/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:46.256193+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."
}