# The Collaboration Between Education Bodies (Wales) Regulations 2012, Regulation 5: Establishment of joint committees

Extent: E+W

(1) The collaborating education bodies must determine, and review annually, the constitution, terms of reference and (subject to regulation 7) membership of any joint committee they decide to establish.
(2) The quorum for a meeting of the joint committee and for any vote on any matter at such a meeting is one half (rounded up to a whole number) of the membership of the joint committee excluding any vacancies and any members suspended from that meeting in accordance with regulation 8.
(3) A joint committee must appoint a chair annually and may remove its chair from office at any time.
(4) A joint committee must elect a member of that joint committee to act as chair in the absence of the chair appointed under paragraph (3).
(5) The following may not act as a chair of a joint committee—
(a) a person who is employed to work at a school, the local authority or a further education body,
(b) a registered pupil of a school, or
(c) a student undertaking a full time or part time course of study of further education at a further education body.
(6) The membership of a joint committee may include non governor members and the extent to which such members are entitled to vote is to be determined by the joint committee.
(7) Non governor members must not make up the majority of members on a joint committee excluding associate pupil governors.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2012/2655/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/collaboration-between-education-bodies-wales-regulations-2012/regulation-5
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