Regulation 10(1)
1. Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, the local education authority must appoint temporary community governors to the temporary governing body of a new school which is or will be a community special school or foundation special school, in accordance with regulation 10(1).
2.—(1) In relation to a new school which is or will be a community special school or a foundation special school established in a hospital, the local education authority must:
(a)designate:
(i)one or more primary care trusts;
(ii)the National Health Service Trust; or
(iii)the NHS foundation trust;
with which the new school is most closely connected, as the appropriate body; and
(b)invite the appropriate body so designated to nominate (and if more than one, jointly) a person to be appointed as one of the temporary community governors.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph:
“National Health Service Trust” means a body established by the Secretary of State under section 25 of the National Health Service Act 2006(1);
“NHS foundation trust” has the same meaning as in section 30(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006; and
“primary care trust” means a body established or continuing under section 18 of the National Health Service Act 2006.
3. In relation to a new school which is or will be a community special school or foundation special school not established in a hospital, the local education authority must appoint as one of the temporary community governors:
(a)if a voluntary organisation is designated by the local education authority as the appropriate voluntary organisation concerned with matters in respect of which the school is specially organised, a person (if any) nominated by that organisation; or
(b)if two or more voluntary organisations are so designated as appropriate voluntary organisations concerned with such matters, a person (if any) nominated by those organisations acting jointly.