Minutes and papers
47.—(1) The clerk (or the person appointed to act as clerk for the purpose of the meeting in accordance with regulation 42(4)) must ensure that minutes of the proceedings of a meeting of the governing body are drawn up and signed (subject to the approval of the governing body) by the chair (or the person acting as chair) at the next meeting.
(2) The minutes of proceedings must be entered into a book kept for the purpose by the clerk and may be entered on loose-leaf pages consecutively numbered; but in that case the person signing the minutes must initial each page.
(3) The person acting as clerk to the governing body for the purposes of any meeting must record immediately before the entry recording the minutes of that meeting in the book or pages used for that purpose the names of those members of the governing body and of any other person present at the meeting concerned.
(4) The governing body must supply a copy of the draft or signed minutes of a particular meeting to the local education authority that maintains the school in question on request by the authority concerned.