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The Parent Governor Representatives and Church Representatives (Wales) Regulations 2001

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Eligibility to vote in elections and voting requirements

6.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a person shall be eligible to vote in the election of a parent governor representative if that person is at the date of the election a parent governor of one or more schools maintained by the local education authority holding the election.

(2) Where, under voting by category arrangements, voting for a particular category of parent governor representative is restricted to parent governors of a particular type or particular types of school maintained by the authority, a person shall only be eligible to vote in the election of such a category of parent governor representative if at the date of the election he or she is a parent governor of one or more schools of that type or those types maintained by the authority.

(3) Where, under such arrangements, voting for a particular category of parent governor representative is restricted to parent governors of schools maintained by the authority in a particular geographical area, a person shall only be eligible to vote in the election of such a category of parent governor representative if at the date of the election he or she is a parent governor of one or more schools in that geographical area maintained by the authority.

(4) Where the authority have not made voting by category arrangements, a person who, at the date of the election, is a parent governor of more than one school maintained by the authority, shall be entitled to cast a number of votes equal to the number of such schools of which he or she is, at the date of the election, a parent governor.

(5) Where the authority have made voting by category arrangements, a person who, by virtue of paragraph (2) or (3), is eligible to vote in the election of more than one category of parent governor representative (because he or she is a parent governor of more than one type of school or of schools within more than one geographical area, as the case may be) shall be entitled to vote in the election of each such category in which he or she is so eligible.

(6) The number of votes which such a person shall be entitled to cast in the election of each such category of parent governor representative in which he or she is eligible to vote shall be a number equal to the number of schools maintained by the authority of which he or she is, at the date of the election, an eligible parent governor.

(7) In paragraph (6) “eligible parent governor” (“rhiant-lywodraethwr cymwys”) means a parent governor who is eligible in accordance with paragraph (2) or (3) (as the case may be) and paragraph (5) to vote in the election of the category of parent governor representative in question.

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