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

Disqualification from continuing to hold office as a parent governor representative

8.—(1) A parent governor representative who qualified for election under these Regulations shall cease to be qualified to hold that office upon —

(a) resigning or being disqualified from the office of parent governor under any enactment; or

(b) subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), ceasing to be a parent governor at a school which is maintained by the local education authority concerned, otherwise than by reason of —

(i) his or her term of office as a parent governor of such a school having expired; or

(ii) a change in the constitution of the governing body of the school at which he or she was a parent governor.

(2) A parent governor representative who qualified for election under voting by category arrangements as a parent governor representative to represent schools of a particular type or particular types shall cease to be qualified to hold that office if he or she no longer holds any parent governorship which qualified or would have qualified him or her to be elected as a parent governor representative for any reason other than those referred to in paragraph (1)(b).

(3) A parent governor representative who qualified for election under voting by category arrangements as a parent governor representative to represent schools in a particular geographical area shall cease to be qualified to hold that office if he or she no longer holds any parent governorship which qualified or would have qualified him or her to be elected as a parent governor representative for any reason other than those referred to in paragraph (1)(b).

(4) A parent governor representative shall cease to be qualified to hold that office if he or she is elected as a member of the local education authority concerned.

(5) A parent governor representative shall cease to be qualified to hold that office if he or she takes up employment —

(a) whether as a teacher or otherwise, in a school maintained by the local education authority concerned or a pupil referral unit or nursery school maintained by that authority, or

(b) with the local education authority and his or her employment relates wholly or partly to the education functions of that authority.

(6) A parent governor representative who has failed to attend the meetings of an education overview and scrutiny committee of which he or she is a member for a continuous period of six months beginning with the date of a meeting shall, on the expiry of that period, cease to be qualified to hold that office.

(7) For the purposes of paragraph (6), a parent governor representative shall not be taken to have failed to attend a meeting of an education overview and scrutiny committee if he or she has tendered an apology for his or her absence and that apology has been accepted by the committee.