{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013/section-42.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2013/1",
  "legislation_title": "School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Proposals to alter mainstream schools",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may make proposals—\n(a) to make a regulated alteration to a community school;\n(b) with the consent of the Welsh Ministers, to make an alteration described in paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 (opening or closing a school's sixth form) to a voluntary or foundation school;\n(c) to make an alteration described in paragraph 10, 11, 12 or 13 of Schedule 2 (increasing and reducing capacity) to a voluntary or foundation school if that school does not have a religious character;\n(d) to make a regulated alteration to a maintained nursery school.\n(2) The governing body of a foundation or voluntary school may make proposals to make a regulated alteration to the school.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 42 in force at 1.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(a) (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/1/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:33.426523+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."
}