{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/college-councils-scotland-no2-regulations-1990/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1637",
  "legislation_title": "The College Councils (Scotland) (No.2) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/college-councils-scotland-no2-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Meetings and proceedings of college councils",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (5), the principal of a college may attend and speak at any meeting of a committee of the college council, but shall not be entitled to vote at any such meeting unless he is a member of the committee.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4), any member who becomes aware before or during any meeting of the college council or committee thereof that he or any person connected with him has, directly or indirectly, an interest or duty relevant to the matter under discussion which is material and which conflicts or may conflict with the interests of the council shall declare such interest and shall not then attend or take part in discussion of, or vote upon, that matter.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a person is connected with a council member in the circumstances specified, in respect of directors of companies, in section 346 of the Com panies Act 1985.\n(4) Paragraph (2) shall not apply to the principal of the college, or a staff or student member, in respect of any interest or duty which he has relevant to the matter under discussion solely by reason of being principal or an employee or student at the college, or a representative of such employees or students.\n(5) A member of a college council who is the principal of the college, or a staff or student member, shall not at any meeting of the council or committee thereof attend or take part in the discussion of any matter relating to—\n(a) in the case of the principal, his terms of employment, his suspension, dismissal or any other disciplinary measures in relation to him, or the appointment of his successor;\n(b) in the case of a staff member, his terms of employment, or those of a group of employees to which he belongs, his promotion, suspension, dismissal or any other disciplinary measures in relation to him;\n(c) in the case of a student member—\n(i) his academic performance or any disciplinary measures in relation to him; or\n(ii) the terms of employment of any person employed at the college, that person’s promotion, suspension, dismissal or any other disciplinary measures in relation to him,\nunless invited to do so by virtue of a resolution of the other members of the council or committee, as the case may be, present at the meeting; and any such person who is so invited shall not vote upon any matter discussed.\n(6) The Director of Education, or an officer of his education authority nominated by him for the purpose, shall be entitled to attend and speak at any meeting of a college council, or committee thereof, in the authority’s area, but shall not be entitled to vote at any such meeting unless he is a member of the college council or committee thereof which is holding the meeting.\n(7) Any information presented in confidence to a college council or any matter discussed in confidence at a meeting of a college council, or committee thereof, shall be treated as confidential to the college council by any person—\n(a) to whom such information has been presented; or\n(b) who was present during any such discussion of it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1637/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:09:17.105843+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."
}