{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-federations-england-regulations-2004/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-federations-england-regulations-2004/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2042",
  "legislation_title": "The School Governance (Federations) (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-federations-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Federation comprising voluntary controlled schools and community, community special or maintained nursery schools",
  "text": "(1) The governing body of a federation containing at least one voluntary controlled school and at least one community school, community special school or maintained nursery school shall consist of the following—\n(a) one third or more shall be parent governors, provided always that for each federated school at least one parent governor shall be elected or appointed in accordance with regulation 13(1) to represent the interests of such parents;\n(b) at least two but no more than one third shall be staff governors;\n(c) at least two but no more than one fifth shall be LEA governors;\n(d) at least two shall be community governors;\n(e) at least one shall be a foundation governor.\n(2) The governing body of the federation may in addition appoint up to two sponsor governors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2042/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:20:43.530441+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."
}