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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/staffing-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/staffing-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/873",
  "legislation_title": "The Staffing of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/staffing-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "School meals staff",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), the authority is responsible for the appointment, discipline, suspension and dismissal of school meals staff who work or are to work at a school and before exercising any such function the authority must consult the school’s governing body to such extent as the authority thinks fit.\n(2) Where an order is in force under section 512A(1) of the Education Act 1996 imposing on the governing body of a school a duty to provide school lunches corresponding to a duty of the authority mentioned in section 512(3) and (4) of that Act or section 512ZB(1) of that Act, paragraph (3) or (4) applies as appropriate.\n(3) Where the governing body has entered into an agreement with the authority that the authority should provide lunches at the school and the governing body determines that any school meals staff member should cease to work at the school it must notify the authority in writing of its determination and the reason for it, and the authority must then require the person to cease to work at the school.\n(4) Where no such agreement has been entered into, regulations 7 and 15 to 17 apply to such staff members.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56; section 512A was inserted by section 116 of the 1998 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 512, together with sections 512ZA and 512ZB, was substituted for section 512 as originally enacted by section 201(1) of the 2002 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/873/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:12.908032+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."
}