{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-voluntary-schools-and-educational-charities-order-1973/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-voluntary-schools-and-educational-charities-order-1973/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1973/2025",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Voluntary Schools and Educational Charities) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-voluntary-schools-and-educational-charities-order-1973",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Terms of office of managers and governors",
  "text": "(1) There shall be substituted for any provision in an instrument relating to the term of office of the representative managers or governors of a voluntary school which—\n(a) is maintained by the council of an existing county borough; and\n(b) as from 1st April 1974 will be maintained by the council of a non-metropolitan county—\na provision that any such manager or governor shall hold office until the appointment of his successor, which may be made at any time after the ordinary day of election of county councillors next after his appointment; and the representative managers and governors of all such schools who are in office immediately before 1st April 1974 shall, unless article 2(2) above applies to them, hold their offices for the terms for which they were respectively appointed.\n(2) There shall be substituted for any provision in an instrument relating to the term of office of the representative managers or governors of a voluntary school which—\n(a) is maintained by the council of an existing county; and\n(b) as from 1st April 1974 will be maintained by the council of a metropolitan district—\na provision that any such manager or governor shall hold office for a period of three years.\n(3) There shall be substituted for any provision in an instrument relating to the term of office of the representative managers or governors of a voluntary school which—\n(a) is maintained by the council of an existing county; and\n(b) as from 1st April 1974 will be maintained by the council of a non-metropolitan county—\na provision that any such manager or governor shall hold office until the appointment of his successor, which may be made at any time after the ordinary day of election of county councillors next after his appointment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/2025/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:57:10.238755+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."
}