The Education (School Government) (Wales) Regulations 1999

Removal of governors by the governing body

19.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to the removal of a governor from office in accordance with regulation 18(3) or (4).

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a resolution to remove a governor from office which is passed at a meeting of the governing body shall not have effect unless—

(a) it is confirmed by a resolution passed at a second meeting of the governing body held not less than fourteen days after the first meeting (“the second meeting”); and

(b) the matter of the governor’s removal from office is specified as an item of business on the agenda for each of those meetings.

(3) In relation to the removal of an additional co-opted governor, before the governing body resolve at the second meeting whether to confirm the resolution to remove the governor from office, the clerk shall give the reasons for removal provided by the nominating body and, where any governor or governors support the removal, they shall at that meeting explain their reasons for doing so and the governor whom it is proposed to remove shall be given an opportunity to make a statement in response.

(4) Before the governing body resolve at the second meeting whether to confirm the resolution to remove any co-opted governor (other than an additional co-opted governor) from office, the governor or governors proposing his removal shall at that meeting state their reasons for doing so and the governor whom it is proposed to remove shall be given an opportunity to make a statement in response.