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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-federations-england-regulations-2007/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/960",
  "legislation_title": "The School Governance (Federations) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-federations-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Procedure for schools wishing to federate",
  "text": "(1) Where a governing body propose that they should federate with the governing body of a federation, they must give notice of the proposal to the governing body of the federation.\n(2) Upon receipt of the notice, the governing body of the federation must consider whether they should—\n(a) give preliminary consent to the governing body joining the federation (“preliminary consent”); or\n(b) determine that the governing body should not join the federation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/960/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:56:41.406474+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."
}