# Education Act 1996, Paragraph 5

Extent: E+W

(1) A person is eligible to be a lay member for the purposes of paragraphs 1(2)(a) and 2(2)(a) if—
(a) he is a person without personal experience in the management of any school or the provision of education in any school (disregarding any such experience as a governor or in any other voluntary capacity), and
(b) he satisfies the conditions specified in sub-paragraph (2).
(2) Those conditions are—
(a) in the case of a person to be nominated as a lay member for the purposes of paragraph 1(2)(a), that he does not have, and has not at any time had, any connection with—
(i) the local education authority in question, or
(ii) any person who is a member of, or employed by, that authority,
of a kind which might reasonably be taken to raise doubts about his ability to act impartially in relation to the authority, and
(b) in the case of a person to be nominated as a lay member for the purposes of paragraph 2(2)(a), that he does not have, and has not at any time had, any connection with—
(i) the school in question, or
(ii) any person who is a member of, or employed by, the governing body of that school,
of a kind which might reasonably be taken to raise doubts about his ability to act impartially in relation to the school.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/schedule/33/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/schedule-33/paragraph-5
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