{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-wales-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-wales-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2001/2263",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Government) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-wales-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Restrictions on persons taking part in proceedings",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 57 of the principal regulations—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(b), for “the head teacher” there shall be substituted “a head teacher entitled to attend meetings”; and\n(b) for paragraph (5) there shall be substituted—\n“(5) A governor or member of a committee of the governing body at more than one school shall not be prevented from considering or voting upon any matter by reason that he or she is a governor or a member of a committee of the governing body at more than one school, and\n(5A) Paragraph (5) applies irrespective of whether the interests of any school at which the person concerned is a governor or a member of a committee of the governing body conflict with the interests of any other school at which he or she is a governor or a member of a committee of the governing body.”.\n(2) In Schedule 7 to the principal regulations—\n(a) in the heading to paragraph 3, for “chairman or clerk” there shall be substituted “chairman, vice chairman or clerk”;\n(b) in paragraph 3(1)(b), for the word “chairman”, in both cases where it occurs, there shall be substituted “chairman or vice chairman”; and\n(c) after paragraph 4, there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“Appointment of Staff\n5 (1) This sub-paragraph applies where a relevant person who is employed to work at a school is present at a meeting of the school at which a subject of consideration is the appointment of a successor to that person.\n(2) In any case where sub-paragraph (1) applies, the person first mentioned in that sub-paragraph shall withdraw from the meeting during the consideration or discussion of the matter in question and shall not vote on any question with respect to that matter.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/2263/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:16:34.321972+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."
}