{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/federation-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-59.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/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Minutes and papers",
  "text": "(1) The clerk (or the person appointed to act as clerk for the purpose of the meeting in accordance with regulation 53(4)) must ensure that minutes of the proceedings of a meeting of the governing body are drawn up and signed (subject to the approval of the governing body) by the chair (or the person acting as chair) at the next meeting.\n(2) The person acting as clerk to the governing body for the purposes of any meeting must record in the minutes of that meeting the names of those members of the governing body and of any other person present at the meeting concerned.\n(3) The governing body must supply a copy of the draft or signed minutes of a particular meeting to the local authority that maintains the school in question on request by the local authority concerned.\n(4) The minutes and agenda drawn up for the purposes of this regulation may be kept in electronic form and where that is the case the minutes may be signed electronically.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 59(2) substituted (18.12.2020) by The Federation of Maintained Schools (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1328), regs. 1, 3(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 59(4) inserted (18.12.2020) by The Federation of Maintained Schools (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1328), regs. 1, 3(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 59 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/59",
    "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."
}