{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-constitution-england-regulations-2007/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-constitution-england-regulations-2007/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/957",
  "legislation_title": "The School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-constitution-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Foundation governors",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“foundation governor” means a person who is appointed as a governor otherwise than by the local education authority and who—\n(a) is appointed for the purposes of securing that the character of the school, including where the school has a particular religious character, such religious character, is preserved and developed, and\n(b) where the school has a foundation, is appointed for the purpose of securing that the school is conducted in accordance with the foundation’s governing documents, including, where appropriate, any trust deed relating to the school;\n“ex officio foundation governor” means a foundation governor who is the holder of an office by virtue of which he is entitled to be a foundation governor;\n“substitute governor” means a foundation governor appointed to act in the place of an ex officio foundation governor who is unwilling or unable to act as a governor or has been removed from office under regulation 24(2).\n(2) Upon ceasing to hold the office from which his governorship derives, an ex officio foundation governor is disqualified from continuing to hold office as such a governor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As designated by Order of the Secretary of State under section 69(3) of SSFA 1998."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/421",
      "affecting_title": "The School Governance (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/421",
      "affecting_title": "The School Governance (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1172",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) Order 2010"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/957/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:56:43.292679+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."
}