SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2E+W New Schools

Part I E+W General

Constitution of temporary governing bodyE+W

2(1)Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, every temporary governing body shall be constituted—

(a)in accordance with the provisions of sections 3 and 7 of this Act, in the case of a school whose governing body will be required to be constituted in accordance with those provisions; and

(b)in accordance with the provisions of [F1sections 4 and 4A] of this Act, in the case of a school whose governing body will be required to be constituted in accordance with those provisions.

(2)For the purpose of the application of section 3, 4 [F24A] or 7 of this Act in relation to the constitution of its temporary governing body, a new school shall be treated as having as registered pupils the maximum number of pupils referred to—

(a)in the relevant proposal; or

F3(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)In co-opting any person (otherwise than as a temporary foundation or teacher governor) to be a member of a temporary governing body of a new school which will be a county, controlled or maintained special school, the temporary governors concerned shall—

(a)have regard—

(i)to the extent to which they and the other temporary governors are members of the local business community; and

(ii)to any representations made to the temporary governing body as to the desirability of increasing the connection between the temporary governing body and that community; and

(b)where it appears to them that no temporary governor of the new school is a member of the local business community, or that it is desirable to increase the number of temporary governors who are, co-opt a person who appears to them to be a member of that community.

(4)The first meeting of any temporary governing body shall be called—

(a)by their clerk; or

(b)where he fails to call it within such period as the local education authority consider reasonable, by the authority.

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