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PART 9COMMITTEES OF GOVERNING BODIES

Right of persons to attend meetings of committees

71.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) and Schedule 10 to these Regulations the following persons are entitled to attend any meeting of a committee—

(a)any member of the committee, provided that person is not a governor who has been suspended in accordance with regulation 61;

(b)the head teacher of the federation or (if there is no head teacher of the federation) of a federated school (whether or not that person is a member of the committee);

(c)the clerk to the committee; and

(d)such other persons as the governing body or the committee may determine.

(2) A committee may exclude a member who is not a governor from any part of its meeting which that person is otherwise entitled to attend when the business under consideration concerns an individual member of staff or pupil.

(3) Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply in relation to the committees referred to in regulations 67 and 68 or in relation to any committee or selection panel exercising any function under the Staffing Regulations (as modified by Schedule 8).