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Amendment of the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2003

2.  In the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2003(1)—

(a)after regulation 4(1)(a) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

(aa)where a school is a maintained nursery school, a person who is elected as a governor by—

(i)parents of registered pupils at the school, or

(ii)parents of children for whom educational or other provision is made on the premises of the school (including any such provision made by the governing body under section 27 of the 2002 Act),

and is himself such a parent at the time when he is elected, or;

(b)in paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 after the words “a parent of a registered pupil at the school” there shall be inserted “, and where the school is a maintained nursery school, a parent of a child for whom educational or other provision is made on the premises of the school (including any such provision made by the governing body under section 27 of the 2002 Act),”; and

(c)for paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

4.  A person is disqualified from holding or from continuing to hold office as a governor of a school at any time when he is detained under the Mental Health Act 1983(2).