# The School Companies Regulations 2002, Regulation 17: Designation of a supervising authority by a school company


(1) Each school company must have a local education authority designated as its supervising authority.
(2) Where the governing bodies of maintained schools who are members of a school company, are all from schools which are maintained by one local education authority, then, subject to paragraph (5), that local education authority is the supervising authority for that school company and the school company shall designate it as such.
(3) Where the membership of a school company includes governing bodies of maintained schools maintained by more than one local education authority and there is only one relevant local education authority that is not a member of the school company then, subject to paragraph (5), that local education authority is the supervising authority for the school company and the school company shall designate it as such.
(4) A school company shall designate its supervising authority in accordance with this regulation by serving written notice of the designation on the supervising authority and all relevant local education authorities within 28 days of these Regulations applying to the company.
(5) Where one of the purposes of a school company is to provide services or facilities for schools and the company considers it likely that it will be competing with the local education authority who would be its supervising authority, the company may request the Secretary of State to designate a different local education authority as the company’s supervising authority.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2978/regulation/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/school-companies-regulations-2002/regulation-17
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