# The Federation of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2014, Regulation 20: Foundation governors

Extent: E+W

(1) In these Regulations—
(a) “foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydledig”) means a person who is appointed to be a member of the governing body of a federation in respect of a particular federated school, otherwise than by the local authority, and who—
(i) where the federation includes a federated school which has a particular religious character, is appointed for the purpose of securing that that character is preserved and developed at that federated school;
(ii) where the federation includes a federated school to which a trust relates, is appointed for the purpose of securing that the federated school is conducted in accordance with that trust, or
(iii) where the federation includes a school which has neither a religious character nor a trust, is appointed as a foundation governor of the federation by a person previously named in the federated school’s instrument of government as having the power to appoint foundation governors;
(b) “ex officio foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydledig ex officio”) means a foundation governor who is the holder of an office by virtue of which that person is entitled to be a foundation governor;
(c) “substitute governor” (“dirprwy-lywodraethwr”) means a foundation governor appointed to act in place of an ex officio foundation governor—
(i) who is unwilling or unable to act as governor;
(ii) who has been removed as a governor under regulation 38(2); or
(iii) if there is a vacancy in the office by virtue of which such a governorship exists.
(2) An ex officio foundation governor is, upon ceasing to hold the office from which that person’s governorship derives, disqualified from continuing to hold office as such a governor.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/1132/regulation/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-20
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