{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-special-schools-initial-governing-instruments-regulations-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-special-schools-initial-governing-instruments-regulations-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2104",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Special Schools) (Initial Governing Instruments) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-special-schools-initial-governing-instruments-regulations-1994",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Chairman and Vice-chairman of the Governing Body",
  "text": "(1) The Governing Body shall each school year, at their first meeting in that year, elect a Chairman and a Vice-chairman from among their number (subject however to sub-paragraph (2) below).\n(2) A governor who is a member of the staff of the School, or is a registered pupil thereat, shall not be eligible for election as Chairman or Vice-chairman.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraphs (4) and (5) below, the Chairman or Vice-chairman shall hold office as such until his successor has been elected in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above.\n(4) The Chairman or Vice-chairman may at any time resign his office by giving notice in writing to the Clerk to the Governing Body.\n(5) the Chairman or Vice-chairman shall cease to hold office if—\n(a) he ceases to be a member of the Governing Body;\n(b) in the case of the Chairman, he is removed from office in accordance with paragraph 20 below; or\n(c) in the case of the Vice-chairman, he is elected in accordance with sub-paragraph (6) below to fill a vacancy in the office of Chairman.\n(6) Where by reason of any of the matters referred to in sub-paragraphs (4) and (5) above a vacancy arises in the office of Chairman or Vice-chairman, the Governing Body shall at their next meeting elect one of their number to fill that vacancy (subject however to sub-paragraph (2) above).\n(7) Subject to sub-paragraph (8) below, where the chairman is absent from any meeting or there is at the time a vacancy in the office of the Chairman, the Vice-chairman shall act as the chairman for the purposes of the meeting.\n(8) Where in the circumstances referred to in sub-paragraph (7) above the Vice-chairman is absent from the meeting or there is at the time a vacancy in the office of Vice-chairman, the Governing Body shall elect one of their number to act as chairman for the purposes of that meeting, provided that the governor elected shall not be a member of the staff of the School, or a registered pupil thereat.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2104/schedule/1/paragraph/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:27:45.906984+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."
}