The School Governance (Roles, Procedures and Allowances) (England) Regulations 2013

Regulation 31

SCHEDULE 3 Pupil Referral Units

Amendment to the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Management Committees etc) (England) Regulations 2007

1.—(1) The Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Management Committees etc) (England) Regulations 2007 are amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 21 substitute—

“Application of the School Governance (Roles, Procedures and Allowances) (England) Regulations 2013

21.   Regulation 2 and Parts 2 to 5 of, and Schedule 1 to the School Governance (Roles, Procedures and Allowances) (England) Regulations 2013 apply in relation to units as they apply in relation to maintained schools to the extent and with the modifications prescribed in Schedule 3 (and in those regulations as so applied any expression defined in regulation 2 has the same meaning as in that regulation).”

(3) For Schedule 3 substitute—

“SCHEDULE 3 Application and amendment of regulations regarding school governance

Application, with modification, of the School Governance (Roles, Procedures and Allowances) (England) Regulations 2013

1.   Wherever they appear—

(a) for references to the “governing body” substitute references to the “committee”;

(b) for references to the “governor” substitute references to a “member”;

(c) for references to the “school” substitute references to the “unit or, as the case may be, the group of units”;

(d) for references to a “committee” substitute references to a “sub-committee of the committee”; and

(e) omit references to associate members.

2.   In regulation 2(2)—

(a) following the definition of “a committee” insert the following definition—

“a reference to “the functions of the committee” is a reference to the functions conferred on, or applied to, the committee by any enactment and functions delegated to the committee by the local authority”;

(b)

omit the definition of “a school”.

3.   In regulation 7—

(a) in paragraph (1), omit “Subject to section 67 of the EIA 2006 (Power of Secretary of State to appoint additional governors)”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (5)(c), omit “or replaced by a chair nominated by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 67 of the EIA 2006”.

4.   In regulation 9(1) omit “, unless the chair has been nominated by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 67 of the EIA 2006”.

5.   In regulation 13(6) omit sub-paragraph (c).

6.   In regulation 14 omit paragraphs (5) and (6).

7.   In regulation 17—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(b) for “Schedule 6 to the Constitution Regulations” substitute “Schedule 2 to these Regulations”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (1)(c) omit “or with the religious character”; and

(c) in paragraph (5) for “paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the Constitution Regulations 2007” substitute “paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations”.

8.   In regulation 18(1) omit “and regulation 3(2) of the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) Regulations 1998”.

9.   Omit regulation 19(1), (3) and (4).

10.   In regulation 23—

(a) for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) The committee must appoint a clerk to each sub-committee, who must not be the teacher in charge of the unit or, as the case may be, of any unit in the group of units.”; and

(b) in paragraph (3) omit “of theirs”.

11.   Omit regulation 24.”

Amendment to the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) Regulations 2007(1)

2.  Omit paragraph 25 of Schedule 1 to the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) Regulations 2007.

(1)

S.I. 2007/2979, paragraph 1 to Schedule 3 of which was revoked by S.I. 2008/3093. S.I.2007/2979, was also amended by S.I 2010/1074 (which was revoked by S.I. 2010/1919), S.I. 2012/1201, S.I 2012/1825 and S.I. 2012/3158.