{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/2914",
  "legislation_title": "The Government of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Foundation governors",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydliedig”) means a person who is appointed as a governor otherwise than by the local authority and who—\n(a)where the school has a particular religious character, is appointed for the purpose of securing that that character is preserved and developed,\n(b)where there is a trust relating to the school, is appointed for the purpose of securing that the school is conducted in accordance with that trust, or\n(c)where the school does not have a religious character and there is no trust relating to it, is appointed as a foundation governor of the school;\n“ex officio foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydliedig ex officio”) means a foundation governor who is the holder of an office by virtue of which he or she is entitled to be a foundation governor;\n“substitute governor” (“dirprwy lywodraethwr”) means a foundation governor appointed to act in the place of an ex officio foundation governor—\n(a)who is unwilling or unable to act as a governor,\n(b)who has been removed as a governor under regulation 27(2), or\n(c)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 his or her governorship derives, disqualified from continuing to hold office as such a governor.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(1) substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Subordinate Legislation) (Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1142), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 17(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 31.10.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As designated by Order of the National Assembly for Wales under section 69(3) of the 1998 Act. See the Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Wales) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/1814 and the Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character and Amendments (Wales) Order 2004, S.I. 2004/1734 (W. 177)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/2914/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:05:28.791574+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."
}