# The Education (New Schools) (England) Regulations 1999, Regulation 21: Requirement in appointing all temporary governors


(1) Where any person is nominating or appointing a person as a temporary governor of a new school, he shall have regard to the desirability of that person being suitably experienced.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a person is suitably experienced—
(a) if he has served as a governor or temporary governor of a school maintained by a local education authority or a grant-maintained school or grant-maintained special school, and
(b) in particular in a case where registered pupils at another such school which has been, or is to be, discontinued are expected to transfer to the new school, if he has served as a governor or temporary governor of that other school.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2262/regulation/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-new-schools-england-regulations-1999/regulation-21
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