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PART 2SCHOOL GOVERNANCE

CHAPTER 2TRAINING FOR GOVERNORS AND CLERKS AND PROVISION OF CLERKS

23Duty of local authorities to provide clerks to the governing bodies of maintained schools

(1)A local authority in Wales must inform, from time to time, each body that is required to appoint a clerk to the governing body of a maintained school in the local authority’s area under section 23 of the Education Act 2002 that the body may request the authority to provide a person for appointment as a clerk.

(2)Regulations may require a local authority in Wales to provide a person for appointment if a request is made.

(3)The regulations may (among other things)—

(a)confer power on a local authority to charge a fee for the provision of a person (including a power to charge different fees in different cases);

(b)prescribe the person by whom the fee must be paid;

(c)provide for exceptions and exemptions.