{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-organisation-prescribed-alterations-to-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2013/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-organisation-prescribed-alterations-to-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2013/schedule-3/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/3110",
  "legislation_title": "The School Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-organisation-prescribed-alterations-to-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Manner of publication of proposals",
  "text": "(1) The proposer must publish—\n(a) the proposals on a website; and\n(b) a notification of the proposals (including the address of the website where the proposals are published) in a local newspaper.\n(2) Any publication under sub-paragraph (1)(a) must contain a statement detailing—\n(a) how copies of the proposals may be obtained;\n(b) that any person may object to or comment on the proposals and the address of the local authority to which any objections or comments should be sent; and\n(c) the date (in accordance with paragraph 2) by which such objections or comments must be sent.\n(3) Within one week of the date of publication under sub-paragraph (1)(a) the proposer must send a copy of the proposals together with the statement published under sub-paragraph (2) to—\n(a) the governing body or local authority (as appropriate);\n(b) if proposals involve, or are likely to affect a school which has a religious character—\n(i) the Diocesan Board of Education for any diocese of the Church of England any part of which is comprised in the area of the local authority;\n(ii) the bishop of a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church any part of which is comprised in the area of the local authority; or\n(iii) the relevant faith group in relation to the school;\n(c) where the school is a special school, to the parents of every registered pupil at the school; and\n(d) any other body or person that the proposer thinks appropriate.\n(4) Within one week of receiving a request for a copy of the proposals the proposer must send a copy to the person requesting it.\n(5) Where a governing body publish a proposal under sub-paragraph (1)(a) they must post a notification of the proposal in a conspicuous place on the school premises and at or near the main entrance to the school, or, if there is more than one main entrance, all of them.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 28.1.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3110/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:32:37.264174+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."
}