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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-constitution-england-regulations-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1034",
  "legislation_title": "The School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-constitution-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "“Appropriate authority” means—\n(a) in relation to a community school, a community special school, a maintained nursery school or a voluntary controlled school, the local authority; and\n(b) in relation to a voluntary aided school, foundation school or foundation special school, the governing body.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 1.9.2012, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Within the meaning of section 20 of and Schedule 2 to SSFA 1998 and section 39(1) of EA 2002."
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:22.088098+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."
}