SCHEDULE 7TRANSITIONAL AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS RELATING TO SCHOOL GOVERNMENT

Savings relating to continuation and composition of governing bodies

5.  The repeal of Part III of the 1996 Act is without prejudice to the continuation in existence as a body corporate of a governing body under regulation 30 of the Second Transitional Regulations, and the continued effect in accordance with that regulation, of—

(a)the provisions of the 1996 Act relating to the composition of governing bodies of grant-maintained schools, disqualification for office of members of such governing bodies and instruments of government for grant-maintained schools, and

(b)any regulations and instruments of government in force under those provisions immediately before 1st September 1999,

for the purpose of determining the composition of, and disqualification requirements relating to, that governing body pending reconstitution under the instrument of government.