Regulation 48 Pupil discipline committee
The pupil discipline committee referred to in regulation 42(3) shall consist of either three or five members of the governing body, but shall not include the head teacher.
The quorum for a meeting of the pupil discipline committee and any vote on any matter thereat shall be three members of the committee.
Despite regulation 42(3), the chairman of the pupil discipline committee may exercise any function conferred on the governing body by subsections (2) to (4) of section 66 of the 1998 Act in a case where—
a pupil has been excluded for a fixed period in circumstances in which he would, as a result of the exclusion, lose an opportunity to take any public examination; and
it appears to the chairman that it would not be practical for a quorate meeting of the committee to take place for any purpose referred to in those subsections before the time when the pupil would be due to take that examination.