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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-england-regulations-2005/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2038",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Inspection) (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notification of an inspection",
  "text": "(1) Where the appropriate authority has been notified of an inspection it must, for the purpose of section 6(1) of the 2005 Act, take such steps as are reasonably practicable to notify—\n(a) in the case of a school maintained by a local education authority and which has a delegated budget, a person appearing to them to be an appropriate officer of the local education authority;\n(b) in the case of a school maintained by a local education authority and which does not have a delegated budget, the chairman of the governing body;\n(c) in the case of a voluntary school, the person who appoints the school’s foundation governors and, in the case of a voluntary aided school the appropriate diocesan authority (if different);\n(d) in the case of a special school which is not maintained by a local education authority, any local authority which is paying fees in respect of the provision of education to any person at that school;\n(e) in the case of any school at which a registered pupil is a child who is looked after by the local authority, a person appearing to them to be an appropriate officer of that local authority; and\n(f) in the case of a secondary school, the local learning and skills council for the area in which the school is located,\nof the time when the inspection is to take place.\n(2) In this regulation a reference to a school which has a delegated budget is a reference to a school which has a delegated budget within the meaning of Part 2 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (School Inspection) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1941",
      "affecting_title": "The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (England) Order 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/956",
      "affecting_title": "The Young People's Learning Agency Abolition (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (England) Order 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2038/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:55:08.370217+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."
}