School Governance (Constitution, Procedures and New Schools) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Amendment of the New Schools (General) (England) Regulations 2003

4.  In the New Schools (General) (England) Regulations 2003(1)—

(a)after regulation 10(3)(a) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa)where a school is, or is to be, a maintained nursery school, he is the parent of a child for whom educational or other provision is or is likely to be made on the premises of the school (including any such provision made by the temporary governing body under section 27 of the 2002 Act); or”

(b)in regulation 10(3)(b) for the words “such a person” there shall be substituted the words “a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (aa)”;

(c)in regulation 44(1) the words “when complete” shall be omitted;

(d)after regulation 44(1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(1A) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the membership of the temporary governing body shall not include vacant positions on the temporary governing body.”;

(e)in regulation 45(2), after sub-paragraph (b), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(c)any report or other paper considered at any such meeting.”;

(f)for regulation 51(c) there shall be substituted—

“(c)the quorum for any meeting of a committee shall be determined by that committee, but in any event shall be not less than three temporary governors who are members of the committee;”; and

(g)for paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“4.  A person is disqualified from holding or from continuing to hold office as a temporary governor of a school at any time when he is detained under the Mental Health Act 1983(2)”.