{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-constitution-and-federations-england-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/487",
  "legislation_title": "The School Governance (Constitution and Federations) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-constitution-and-federations-england-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "text": "(1) The School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2012 are amended as follows.\n(2) Omit paragraph (6) of regulation 14 (additional requirements for foundation and voluntary schools).\n(3) After regulation 24 (removal of appointed parent governors), insert—\n“Removal of elected parent governors or staff governors\n24A. (1) Any parent governor, elected in accordance with regulation 6(1), or any staff governor, may be removed by the governing body in accordance with the procedure set out in regulation 25.”.\n(4) In regulation 25 (procedure for removal of governors by the governing body)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for “or 24” substitute “, 24 or 24A”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2), after “24” insert “or 24A”.\n(5) In Schedule 1 (election and appointment of parent governors)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 10, after “governor” insert “in the following order of preference”;\n(b) omit sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 10;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 11, after “appoint” insert “in the following order of preference”; and\n(d) omit sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 11.\n(6) In Schedule 4 (qualifications and disqualifications)—\n(a) after paragraph 12 (disqualification of charity trustees), insert—\n“Disqualification of elected parent or staff governors who have been removed from office\n12A. A person is disqualified from holding or continuing to hold office as a governor of a school until the date immediately after the fifth anniversary of the date of their removal as an elected parent or staff governor under these Regulations.”; and\n(b) omit paragraph 16 (notification to clerk).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/1034; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2014/1257."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/487/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:51.618076+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."
}