# Education Act 1996, Paragraph 9

Extent: E+W

(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where temporary governors are required to co-opt one or more persons to be members of the temporary governing body, the arrangement under which the temporary governing body are constituted shall not make any provision which has the effect of restricting those temporary governors in their choice of person to co-opt.
(2) In co-opting a person to be a member of a temporary governing body of a new school which will be a county, controlled or maintained special school, the temporary governors concerned shall have regard—
(a) to the extent to which they and the other temporary governors are members of the local business community, and
(b) to any representations made to the temporary governing body as to the desirability of increasing the connection between the temporary governing body and that community,
and, where it appears to them that no temporary governor of the new school is a member of the local business community or that it is desirable to increase the number of temporary governors who are, shall co-opt a person who appears to them to be a member of that community.
(3) This paragraph does not apply in relation to the co-option of temporary foundation governors, and sub-paragraph (2) does not apply in relation to the co-option of temporary teacher governors.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/schedule/9/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/schedule-9/paragraph-9
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