The Education (New Schools) (Wales) Regulations 1999

Qualifications and disqualifications

24.—(1) Schedule 6 to the Main School Government Regulations applies, with the modifications set out in paragraph (2), for the purpose of setting out the circumstances in which a person is qualified or disqualified for holding or continuing in office, or for being appointed or nominated as a temporary governor of a new school(1).

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), Schedule 6 to the Main School Government Regulations shall apply with the following modifications—

(a) there shall be inserted at the beginning—

• “This Schedule applies to new schools and temporary governing bodies to which regulation 24(1) of the Education (New Schools) (Wales) Regulations 1999 applies, and any reference in this Schedule to a temporary governor of a particular category is a reference to a governor of that category within the meaning of those regulations.”;

(b) there shall be substituted—

(i) for references to “school” or “maintained school”, “new school”;

(ii) for references to “governing body”, “governor” or “governorship”, “temporary governing body”, “temporary governor”, or “temporary governship”, as the case may be;

(iii) for references to a particular category of governor, references to a temporary governor of the corresponding category, within the meaning of Part III of these Regulations;

(iv) for paragraph 1(3)—

“(3) Subject to paragraphs 12 and 15, the fact that a person is qualified for appointment as a temporary governor of a particular category at a new school does not disqualify him for appointment or for continuing as a temporary governor of any other category at that school.”;

(v) for paragraph 14—

“14.   A person shall not be disqualified for continuing to hold office as a temporary parent governor when he ceases to be a parent of a child who is or is likely to become a registered pupil at the school or ceases to fulfil any of the requirements of regulation 12 of the Education (New Schools) (Wales) Regulations 1999.”;

(vi) for paragraph 16—

“16.   A temporary teacher governor or a temporary staff governor at a new school shall, upon ceasing to be employed at a maintained school, be disqualified for continuing to hold office as such a governor.”;

(c) paragraphs 3, 4 and 10(2) shall not apply;

(d) there shall be omitted the words “election or” and “or election” wherever they occur.

(1)

See regulation 23. This regulation does not apply to transitional governing bodies referred to in regulation 13 of the Second Transitional Regulations or temporary governing bodies referred to in regulation 13 of the School Organisation Regulations. Disqualification requirements for members of such governing bodies follow the 1996 Act.