# The Colleges of Education (Scotland) Regulations 1987, Regulation 17: Business arrangements


(1) The governing body may appoint such committees of its own number as it thinksfit, and may appoint, as additional members of any committee, persons, not being governors, whom it considers specially fitted to assist the work of the committee, and may delegate such of its functions as it considers expedient to any such committee.
(2) The governing body shall hold at least four ordinary meetings in the year, at such times and places as it may determine.
(3) At all meetings of the governing body one-third of the current membership of the governing body shall be a quorum. All questions shall be determined by a majority of the governors present, and the chairman of any meeting shall have both a deliberative vote and a casting vote.
(4) Where any meeting of a governing body is to consider the salary or conditions of service of a particular category of staff, any governor who is within that category shall withdraw from the meeting while such matters are considered, unless invited to remain by virtue of a resolution of the members of the governing body present at the meeting who are not within that category:
Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall require the principal or a vice-principal to withdraw from a meeting.
(5) Where any meeting of a governing body or any committee of it is to consider the salary, conditions of service, appointment, promotion, suspension or dismissal of any member of the staff of the college of education, any governor who is a student of that college shall withdraw from the meeting while such matters are considered, unless invited to remain by virtue of a resolution of the members of the governing body or committee present at the meeting who are not such students.
(6) All deeds and other writings, sealed by the common seal of the governing body and signed by one governor and an officer of the governing body appointed for the purpose, shall be held to be validly executed on behalf of the governing body.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/309/regulation/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-17
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