The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Co-option of persons to Board of Governors of grant-aided school

122.—(1) The voting members of the Board of Governors of a grant-aided school may co-opt not more than three persons to be members of the Board of Governors of the school.

(2) It shall be the duty of the voting members in co-opting any person to be a member of the Board of Governors to co-opt a person who appears to them to be a member of the local business community if it appears to the voting members—

(a) that no member of the Board of Governors is a member of the local business community; or

(b) that it is desirable to increase the number of members of the Board of Governors who are members of that community.

(3) In this Article “voting members”—

(a) in relation to the Board of Governors of a grant-maintained integrated school, has the same meaning as in Schedule 5;

(b) in relation to the Board of Governors of a school to which Schedule 7 to the principal Order applies, means the members of the Board of Governors referred to in paragraph 2(1)(a), (b) and (c) of that Schedule;

(c) in relation to the Board of Governors of any other grant-aided school, has the meaning assigned to it for the purposes of whichever of Schedules 4, 5, 6 or 8 to the principal Order applies in relation to the membership of that Board of Governors.