{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-new-schools-england-regulations-2007/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-new-schools-england-regulations-2007/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/958",
  "legislation_title": "The School Governance (New Schools) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-new-schools-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Temporary sponsor governors",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n(a) “temporary sponsor governor” means a person appointed to be a member of a temporary governing body of a new school in accordance with paragraph (2);\n(b) “sponsor” in relation to a school means:\n(i) a person who gives or has given substantial financial assistance (which for these purposes includes benefits in kind) to the school other than pursuant to a statutory obligation; or\n(ii) any other person (not being otherwise represented on the governing body) who provides or has provided substantial services to the school,\nprovided that, in either case, such person is not entitled to appoint the temporary foundation governors nor connected to any person so entitled.\n(c) for the purposes of this paragraph, a person is connected with a person entitled to appoint temporary foundation governors where—\n(i) he is a partner or relative (including a spouse or someone living with that person as if he or she were that person’s spouse); or\n(ii) either or both persons are a body corporate and one owns at least one-fifth of the other’s equity share capital (within the meaning of the Companies Act 1985), or is entitled to exercise or control the exercise of more than one-fifth of the voting power of the other at any general meeting.\n(2) Where a new school has one or more sponsors, the temporary governing body may appoint up to two or four (as the case may be) temporary sponsor governors, nominated in accordance with paragraph (3).\n(3) Where the temporary governing body intends to appoint temporary sponsor governors, they must seek nominations for such appointments from the school’s sponsor or, as the case may be, from one or more of the school’s sponsors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Companies Act 1985 has been prospectively repealed and replaced by the Companies Act 2006."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/883",
      "affecting_title": "The School Governance (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/958/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:56:42.580809+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."
}