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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-constitution-england-regulations-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-14",
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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/4/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Criminal convictions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (6) below, a person is disqualified from holding, or continuing to hold, office as a governor of a school where any of sub-paragraphs (2) to (4) or (6) below apply to the person.\n(2) This sub-paragraph applies to a person (“P”) if—\n(a) within the period of five years ending with the date immediately preceding the date on which P’s appointment or election as governor would otherwise have taken effect or, as the case may be, on which P would otherwise have become a governor by virtue of an office, or\n(b) since P’s appointment or election as governor or, as the case may be, since P became a governor by virtue of an office,\nP has been convicted, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, of any offence and a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) has been imposed on P for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies to a person (“Q”) if within the period of 20 years ending with the date immediately preceding the date on which Q’s appointment or election as governor would otherwise have taken effect or, as the case may be, on which Q would otherwise have become a governor by virtue of an office, Q has been convicted of any offence and a sentence of imprisonment has been imposed on Q for a period of not less than two and a half years.\n(4) This sub-paragraph applies to a person who has at any time been convicted as aforesaid of any offence and a sentence of imprisonment has been imposed on the person for a period of not less than five years.\n(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2) to (4) above, any conviction by or before a court outside the United Kingdom of an offence which, if the facts giving rise to the offence had taken place in any part of the United Kingdom, would not have constituted an offence under the law in force in that part of the United Kingdom must be disregarded.\n(6) This sub-paragraph applies to a person (“R”) if—\n(a) within the period of five years ending with the date immediately preceding the date on which R’s appointment or election as governor would otherwise have taken effect or, as the case may be, on which R would otherwise have become a governor by virtue of an office, or\n(b) since R’s appointment or election as governor or, as the case may be, since R became a governor by virtue of an office,\nR has been convicted under section 547 of EA 1996 (nuisance or disturbance on school premises) or under section 85A of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (nuisance or disturbance on educational premises) of an offence and has been sentenced to a fine.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 14 in force at 1.9.2012, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As amended by SSFA 1998 and by section 206 of and Schedule 20 to EA 2002 and by section 6 of and Schedule 1 to the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and by S.I. 2010/1158."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c.13; section 85A was inserted by section 206 of and Schedule 20 to EA 2002 and amended by S.I. 2010/1158 and by section 54 of and Schedule 13 to the Education Act 2011."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1034/schedule/4/paragraph/14",
    "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."
}