The Collaboration Between Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2008

Right of persons to attend meetings of joint committees

7.—(1) Subject to regulation 9 and to the Schedule to these Regulations the following persons are entitled to attend any meeting of a joint committee —

(a) any governor who is a member of the joint committee, provided he or she is not a member of a collaborating governing body who has been suspended in accordance with regulation 49 of the Government of Maintained Schools Regulations;

(b) a head teacher, whether or not he or she is a member of the joint committee;

(c) the clerk to the joint committee; and

(d) such other persons as the joint committee may determine.

(2) A joint committee may exclude a non governor member from any part of its meeting when the business under consideration concerns an individual member of staff or pupil.

(3) Paragraph 1(b) does not apply in relation to the committees referred to in regulations 55 and 56 of the Government of Maintained Schools Regulations or in relation to any joint committee or selection panel exercising any function under regulations 9 to 34 of the Staffing of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2006.