{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-85ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-85ZA.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/31",
  "legislation_title": "School Standards and Framework Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998",
  "path": "section/85ZA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85ZA",
  "heading": "Co-operation in discharging functions under this Part (England)",
  "text": "(1) A local authority in England and the governing body of a maintained school in England must co-operate in the exercise of their respective functions under or by virtue of this Part.\n(2) A local authority in England and the proprietor of an Academy school must co-operate in the exercise of their respective functions under or by virtue of this Part.\n(3) Where Academy arrangements require the proprietor of an Academy school to act as if a provision of this Part applied to the school, the provision is to be taken so to apply for the purposes of subsection (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 85ZA and cross-heading inserted (29.6.2026) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), ss. 61(1), 78(2)(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/section/85ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:40.566698+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."
}