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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a vacancy for a parent governor arises, the appropriate body must take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that every person who is known to them to be a parent of a registered pupil at the school is—\n(a) informed of the vacancy and that it is required to be filled by election;\n(b) informed that that person is entitled to stand as a candidate and vote in the election; and\n(c) given the opportunity to do so.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 in force at 22.5.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/1132/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}