{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2014/1132",
  "legislation_title": "The Federation of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Foundation governors",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n(a) “foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydledig”) means a person who is appointed to be a member of the governing body of a federation in respect of a particular federated school, otherwise than by the local authority, and who—\n(i) where the federation includes a federated school which has a particular religious character, is appointed for the purpose of securing that that character is preserved and developed at that federated school;\n(ii) where the federation includes a federated school to which a trust relates, is appointed for the purpose of securing that the federated school is conducted in accordance with that trust, or\n(iii) where the federation includes a school which has neither a religious character nor a trust, is appointed as a foundation governor of the federation by a person previously named in the federated school’s instrument of government as having the power to appoint foundation governors;\n(b) “ex officio foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydledig ex officio”) means a foundation governor who is the holder of an office by virtue of which that person is entitled to be a foundation governor;\n(c) “substitute governor” (“dirprwy-lywodraethwr”) means a foundation governor appointed to act in place of an ex officio foundation governor—\n(i) who is unwilling or unable to act as governor;\n(ii) who has been removed as a governor under regulation 38(2); or\n(iii) if there is a vacancy in the office by virtue of which such a governorship exists.\n(2) An ex officio foundation governor is, upon ceasing to hold the office from which that person’s governorship derives, disqualified from continuing to hold office as such a governor.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 22.5.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As designated by Order of the Welsh Ministers under section 69(3) of the 1998 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/1132/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:38:54.593351+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."
}