50In section 125 (school and college councils), after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsections—
“(3A)Notwithstanding any rule of law, a person in minority shall be eligible to be appointed as a member of a school or college council.
(3B)Without prejudice to the entitlement of a member of a school or college council who is also a member of a body to which sections 45 and 46 of this Act apply to receive allowances under those sections, an education authority may pay to any member of such a council—
(a)in respect of his attendance at a meeting of the council, or
(b)in respect of the doing by him of anything approved by the authority, or anything of a class so approved, for the purpose of, or in connection with, the discharge of the functions of the council,
such allowances, in the nature of those payable under those sections, other than subsection (1) of the said section 45, as they think fit, being payments of such reasonable amounts as they may determine in any particular case or class of case and not exceeding the amounts prescribed under subsection (4) of the said section 45 and specified under the said section 46 for the corresponding allowances under those sections.”.