{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-institutions-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-institutions-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1715",
  "legislation_title": "The Central Institutions (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/central-institutions-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Co-opted membership",
  "text": "(1) The governing body of each central institution shall co-opt, subject to paragraph (3), no less than 2 and no more than 6 persons to serve as governors, which co-opted membership shall include—\n(a) at least one person having experience of local government; and\n(b) at least one person from the full-time academic staff of another establishment of further or higher education.\n(2) In respect of the first co-option of governors to a governing body under these Regulations, the core membership shall act as the governing body for the purposes of paragraph (1).\n(3) A governing body may co-opt more than 2 governors only if upon such co-option the governors appointed under regulation 5(1)(a) remain in overall majority in the governing body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1715/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:07.014582+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}