Regulation 5 Disqualification from membership of more than four governing bodies
On and after 1st September 1987 a person shall be disqualified for holding office as a governor of a school if, were he to be appointed or elected to that office, he would, at the date the appointment or election would have taken effect, be a member of the governing bodies of more than four schools.
Where a person, by virtue of appointments or elections made before 1st September 1987, is on 1st September 1989 a member of the governing bodies of more than four schools then, on that date, he shall be disqualified for continuing to hold office as a governor of those schools, without prejudice however, subject to paragraph (1), to his re-appointment or re-election as a governor of one or more thereof.
A person who is on 1st September 1987, or (by virtue of offices taken up after that date) subsequently becomes, anex officio member of the governing bodies of more than four schools shall be disqualified for continuing to hold office as such save–
in the case of such four or lower number of those bodies as may for the time being be designated by him for the purposes hereof by notice in writing given to the clerks to the governing bodies so designated and to the clerks to the other governing bodies of which he would otherwise have been an ex officio member, such notice being expressed to have effect from a date not earlier than two months after the date thereof; and
until 1st September 1989, in the case of a governing body (not designated as aforesaid) of which he became anex officio member before 1st September 1987.
Where a person–
is a temporary governor of a school by virtue of his having been appointed under a provision made by virtue of paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act; or
is a governor or temporary governor of a schoolex officio;
that governorship shall be disregarded when the number of governorships are calculated for the purpose of paragraphs (1) and (2) above.
Where there is a single governing body for a group of two or more schools, that group shall be treated for the purposes of this regulation as if it were a single school.