The Education (School Government) (England) Regulations 1999

Copies of instruments of government

5.—(1) The local education authority which maintains or will maintain a school or a new school for which an instrument of government has been made shall secure that the persons set out in paragraph (2) are provided (free of charge) with–

(a) a copy of the school’s instrument of government; and

(b) where any variation is made to the school’s instrument of government–

(i) a copy of the order varying the instrument; and

(ii) a consolidated version of the instrument of government incorporating all variations made by order of the local education authority (other than any variations which have ceased to have effect).

(2) In relation to any school referred to in paragraph (1), the persons who are to be provided with the information referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) are–

(i) every member of the governing body of the school;

(ii) every member of the temporary governing body of the school;

(iii) any trustees under a trust deed relating to the school; and

(iv) in the case of a Church of England or Roman Catholic Church school, the appropriate diocesan authority or, in the case of a new school which has not opened, the diocesan authority which will be the appropriate diocesan authority when the school opens.