{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-transition-to-new-framework-regulations-1998/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-transition-to-new-framework-regulations-1998/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2763",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Government) (Transition to New Framework) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-transition-to-new-framework-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Appointment or election of new governors",
  "text": "(1) The following paragraphs apply in relation to the appointment or election of governors referred to in regulation 15(1).\n(2) The requirement in paragraph 14(4) of Schedule 9 to the 1998 Act (foundation governors of voluntary aided schools to include parents) shall apply only in so far as it is compatible with regulation 13(2) and (6).\n(3) Any co-opted governor (other than an additional co-opted governor) shall be appointed by members of the current governing body, who were not themselves appointed as co-opted governors within the meaning of the 1996 Act, in accordance with Schedule 3 to these Regulations.\n(4) Any additional co-opted governor shall be appointed by members of the current governing body who were not themselves appointed as co-opted governors within the meaning of the 1996 Act.\n(5) Any parent governor shall be either—\n(a) elected by parents of registered pupils at the current school and himself such a parent at the time when he is elected; or\n(b) appointed as a parent governor by the current governing body in the circumstances and subject to the provisions set out in Schedule 4.\n(6) Any partnership governor shall be a person nominated as a partnership governor, and appointed as such, in accordance with Schedule 5.\n(7) Any staff governor shall be elected by persons employed (under a contract of employment or a contract for services) to work at the current school otherwise than as teachers, and shall himself be a person so employed at the time when he is elected.\n(8) Any teacher governor shall be—\n(a) a person elected by teachers at the current school; and\n(b) such a teacher at the time when he is elected.\n(9) The quorum for a meeting of the current governing body to consider appointment of partnership governors, parent governors or co-opted governors (other than co-opted governors who are foundation governors) and any vote in connection with such appointments shall be any two-thirds (rounded up to a whole number) of the governors entitled to vote on those respective matters.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev.in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2163",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (School Government) (England) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2163",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (School Government) (England) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2763/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:54.764334+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."
}