Paragraph 3 Governor of more than two schools

Subject to sub-paragraph (7), a person shall be disqualified for holding office as a governor of a school if, were he to continue in office as such on transition to the new schools framework, or be appointed or elected to that office, he would, on the date on which he would have so continued in office or on which the appointment or election would have taken effect, be a member of the governing body of more than two schools.

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) no account shall be taken of ex officio governorships, temporary governorships, or additional governorships in respect of governors appointed under section 27 of the School Inspections Act 1996^f1 or section 16 or 18 of the 1998 Act.

Sub-paragraph (4) applies to a person who continues in office on transition to the new schools framework as, or who becomes, an ex officio member of the governing body of a relevant school and is an ex officio member of the governing body of more than two relevant schools.

A person to whom this sub-paragraph applies shall be disqualified for continuing to hold office as an ex officio governor of any relevant school unless that school is for the time being a designated school.

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4), a designated school is a school designated by the ex officio governor, in accordance with sub-paragraph (6), by notice in writing to the clerk to the governing body of the school and to the clerk to the governing body of any other relevant school whose instrument of government provides for him to be an ex officio member.

A person to whom sub-paragraph (4) applies may designate one or two maintained schools provided that the number of governing bodies of relevant schools of which he will be an ex officio member shall be no more than two.

Up to and including 31st August 2001 a person who on 31st August 1999 was a member of the governing body of a grouped school shall not be disqualified under sub-paragraph (1) for holding office as a governor of more than two schools, provided that at least two of the schools of which he is a governor were within the same group and that the total number of governing bodies of schools of which he is a member does not exceed three.

For the purposes of this paragraph, a relevant school is a maintained school at which the governing body conducting the school are constituted or partly constituted under an instrument of government made under Schedule 12 to the 1998 Act.

For the purposes of this paragraph, a grouped school is a school which, on 31st August 1999, formed part of a group of schools grouped under section 89 of the 1996 Act, whether or not its governing body was constituted under an instrument of government with effect from midnight on that date.