Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006

17Withdrawal from represented schools

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(1)With the requisite consent, the members of the Parent Forum of a school for which a Combined Parent Council is established may decide that the school withdraws from the represented schools.

(2)The reference in subsection (1) to “requisite consent”–

(a)is to consent obtained after each member of the Parent Forum of the school has been given written notice of the proposed decision with an invitation to the member in question to indicate, within such reasonable time as the proposer may specify in the invitation, whether the member agrees that the decision be taken, and

(b)is the consent of the majority of such members of the Parent Forum as respond timeously to that invitation.