{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-federations-england-regulations-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-federations-england-regulations-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1035",
  "legislation_title": "The School Governance (Federations) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-federations-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In appointing a parent governor, the governing body of a federation must appoint in the following order of preference—\n(a) a parent of a registered pupil at a federated school (or, in respect of any maintained nursery school in the federation, a parent of a child for whom educational or other provision is made on the premises of the school (including any such provision made by the governing body under section 27 of EA 2002));\n(b) a parent of a former registered pupil at a federated school;\n(c) a parent of a child with special educational needs for which a federated school is approved; or\n(d) a parent of a child, including a child who has special educational needs and is over compulsory school age.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9 substituted (1.9.2016) by The School Governance (Constitution and Federations) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/204), regs. 1(3), 3(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 9(1) inserted (1.5.2017) by The School Governance (Constitution and Federations) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/487), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9(2) omitted (1.5.2017) by virtue of The School Governance (Constitution and Federations) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/487), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9 in force at 1.9.2012, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1035/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:21.436068+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."
}