{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2014/1132",
  "legislation_title": "The Federation of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Staff governors",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations “staff governor” (“staff-lywodraethwr”) means a person —\n(a) who is elected in accordance with Schedule 3 as a member of the governing body of a federation by persons who are employed to work at the federation or at a federated school otherwise than as a school teacher; and\n(b) who is a person so working at the time when that person is elected.\n(2) Upon ceasing to work at a school within the federation, a staff governor of a school is disqualified from continuing to hold office as such a governor.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4) a person is disqualified from election as a staff governor to a governing body if that person—\n(a) has previously been elected as a staff governor to the same governing body within the last two years; or\n(b) is employed to work at the same federated school as any person elected as a staff governor to that governing body within the last two years.\n(4) Paragraph (3)(b) does not apply to—\n(a) any person employed to work at two or more schools in the federation ; or\n(b) a federation that consists of only two schools.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(4) renumbered as reg. 16(4)(a) (4.2.2022) by The Federation of Maintained Schools (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1431), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 16(4)(b) and word inserted (4.2.2022) by The Federation of Maintained Schools (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1431), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 22.5.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/1132/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:38:54.593351+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."
}