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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3102",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Initial Governing Instruments) Regulations 1993",
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  "heading": "Disqualification for holding office: absence from meetings",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to any governor of the School other than a governor ex officio.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (6) below, where a governor to which this paragraph applies has without the consent of the Governing Body failed to attend any meetings thereof for the relevant period, beginning with the date on which he last attended such a meeting, he shall on the expiry of that period be disqualified for continuing to hold office as such a governor.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2) above, the reference to the relevant period is to such period (not being less than six nor more than twelve months) as may from time to time be determined by the Governing Body; and where no such determination has been made is a reference to the period of six months.\n(4) Where the Governing Body determine or redetermine the relevant period for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) above, the Clerk to the Governing Body shall give written notice of that decision to every member of the Governing Body within the period of fifteen days begining with the date of the decision; and the determination or, as the case may be, the redetermination shall not have effect until the expiry of the period referred to in sub-paragraph (5) below.\n(5) The period is that which applies for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) above at the date of the decision to which the notice under sub-paragraph (4) above relates beginning with the date of the decision.\n(6) The Governing Body may determine that sub-paragraph (2) above shall not apply, but that sub-paragraph (7) below shall apply instead.\n(7) Subject to sub-paragraph (8) below, where a governor to which this paragraph applies has without the consent of the Governing Body failed to attend the relevant number of consecutive meetings of the Governing Body, he shall be disqualified for continuing to hold office as such a governor from the date immediately following the date on which the last such meeting was held.\n(8) A person who would otherwise be disqualified by virtue of sub-paragraph (7) above shall not be so disqualified if the period beginning with the date on which he last attended a meeting of the Governing Body to the date of the last of the meetings referred to in sub-paragraph (7) above is less than six months; however, if he has still failed to attend any meeting of the Governing Body on the expiry of the period of six months beginning with the date on which he last attended such a meeting, he shall be so disqualified from the date of the expiry of that period.\n(9) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (7) above, the relevant number is the number determined by the Governing Body on resolving, in accordance with sub-paragraph (6) above, that sub-paragraph (7) above shall apply; or such other number as the Governing Body may from time to time determine.\n(10) Where the Governing Body make a determination in accordance with sub-paragraph (6) or (9) above, the Clerk to the Governing Body shall give written notice of that determination to every member of the Governing Body within the period of fifteen days beginning with the date of the determination; and the determination shall not have effect until the expiry of the period of six months beginning with the date on which it was made.\n(11) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (4) and (10) above, notice may be given to a person by leaving it at, or by sending it by first class post to, his usual place of residence.\n(12) Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a person, who has been disqualified in accordance with this paragraph for continuing to hold office, from being elected or appointed for a further term of office as a governor of the School.",
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