# The Education (School Government) (Wales) Regulations 1999, Regulation 37: Quorum


(1) The quorum for a meeting of the governing body and any vote on any matter thereat shall subject to paragraph (2), be any three members of that body or, where greater, any one third (rounded up to a whole number) of the membership when complete.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, the quorum for the purposes of—
(a) appointing a parent governor or partnership governor,
(b) co-opting governors (otherwise than as foundation governors),
(c) co-opting temporary governors,
(d) appointing members of, or determining any question relating to, any committee established under these Regulations or any head teacher or deputy head teacher selection panel under Schedule 16 or 17 to the 1998 Act,
(e) any vote on the removal of a member of the governing body in accordance with regulation 19,
(f) any vote on the removal of the chairman of the governing body in accordance with regulation 30, or
(g) making arrangements for an Education Action Forum to discharge any function on behalf of the governing body or assume full responsibility for the discharge of any function of the governing body,
shall be two-thirds (rounded up to a whole number) of the persons who are at the time members of the governing body entitled to vote on those respective matters.
(3) In any case to which paragraphs (3) and (4) of regulation 30 apply for the purposes of the removal of the chairman of the governing body, paragraph (2) shall have effect as if the reference to two-thirds were a reference to one-half.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2242/regulation/37 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-37
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