{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-england-regulations-1999/regulation-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-england-regulations-1999/regulation-50.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2163",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Government) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-england-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/50",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Disqualification of members of governing body committees",
  "text": "(1) No person shall be qualified for membership of a committee of the governing body of a school unless he is aged 18 or over at the date of his appointment.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4) the following paragraphs of Schedule 5 shall apply for the purpose of setting out the circumstances in which a person who is not a governor of a school is disqualified for holding or continuing in office as a member of a committee of the governing body of that school–\n(a) paragraph 2 (mental disorder);\n(b) paragraph 5 (bankruptcy);\n(c) paragraph 6 (disqualification of company directors);\n(d) paragraph 7 (disqualification of charity trustees);\n(e) paragraph 8 (persons whose employment is prohibited or restricted);\n(f) paragraph 9 (persons disqualified for being proprietors of independent schools);\n(g) paragraph 10 (criminal convictions).\n(3) Where, by virtue of paragraph (2)–\n(a) a person becomes disqualified for holding, or for continuing to hold office as a member of a committee of the governing body of a school; and\n(b) he is, or is proposed to become such a member, he shall upon becoming so disqualified give written notice of that fact to the clerk to the governing body.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)–\n(a) in the provisions referred to in paragraph (2)(a) to (g), for references to “governor” there shall be substituted “member of a committee of the governing body”; and\n(b) in paragraph 10 of Schedule 5–\n(i) sub-paragraph (2) shall be omitted; and\n(ii) there shall be omitted (in each place in which they appear) the words “or election”, “or, as the case may be, on which he would otherwise have become a governor ex officio” and “or as the case may be, since he became a governor ex officio.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2163/regulation/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:46.256193+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."
}