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The Education (School Government) (Transition to New Framework) Regulations 1998

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3.—(1) A person who would otherwise continue in office as, or be appointed or elected to be, a member of the governing body of a maintained school shall not so continue as or be so appointed or elected if this would mean that he would be a member of the governing body of more than two relevant schools.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) no account shall be taken of ex officio governorships or additional governorships under section 27 of the School Inspections Act 1996(1) or section 16 or 18 of the 1998 Act.

(3) Sub-paragraph (4) applies to a person who continues in office as, or becomes, an ex officio member of the governing body of a maintained school and is an ex officio member of the governing body of more than two relevant schools.

(4) A person to whom this paragraph applies shall be disqualified for continuing to hold office as an ex officio governor of any maintained school unless that school is for the time being a designated school.

(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4), a designated school is a school designated by the ex officio governor, in accordance with sub-paragraph (6), by notice in writing to the clerk to the governing body of the school and to the clerk to the governing body of any other relevant school whose instrument of government provides for him to be an ex officio member.

(6) A person to whom paragraph (4) applies may designate one or two maintained schools provided that the number of governing bodies of relevant schools of which he will be an ex officio member shall be no more than two.

(7) For the purpose of this paragraph, a relevant school is a maintained school at which the governing body conducting the school are constituted or partly constituted under an instrument of government made under Schedule 12 to the 1998 Act, whether or not these Regulations apply to that school.

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