{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-committees-england-regulations-1999/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-committees-england-regulations-1999/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/700",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Organisation Committees) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-committees-england-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Election of chairman and vice-chairman",
  "text": "(1) At–\n(a) their first meeting; and\n(b) each meeting referred to in paragraph (2),\nthe committee shall elect a chairman and vice chairman.\n(2) The chairman and vice-chairman shall hold office until the next meeting which falls after the date which is a year after the meeting at which the chairman or vice-chairman was elected, and on ceasing to hold office shall be eligible for re-election.\n(3) In the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of chairman or vice-chairman the committee shall at their next meeting elect one of their member to fill that vacancy and a member so elected shall hold office until the date of the meeting at which the chairman or vice chairman would have held office had the casual vacancy not occurred.\n(4) A chairman or vice-chairman shall cease to hold office–\n(a) if he resign his office by written notice given to the secretary; or\n(b) if he ceases to be a member of the committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/700/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:46.459512+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."
}