{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-wales-constitution-regulations-1999/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-wales-constitution-regulations-1999/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1619",
  "legislation_title": "The General Teaching Council for Wales (Constitution) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-wales-constitution-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Casual vacancies",
  "text": "(1) Where a vacancy occurs among members otherwise than by the expiry of a member’s term of office–\n(a) if the vacancy is among the elected members, the vacancy shall be filled by the person receiving the next highest number of votes in the election of the member who has vacated office, and if no such person is available the Council shall fill the vacancy by co-opting a person of like electoral qualifications as the member who has vacated office;\n(b) if the vacancy is among members appointed under regulation 7, the vacancy shall be filled by the Secretary of State by appointing a person from the list of nominees most recently provided for the purposes of appointments under that regulation; and\n(c) if the vacancy is among members appointed under regulation 8, the vacancy shall be filled by an appointment made by the Secretary of State.\n(2) A person appointed under paragraph (1)(a) to fill a vacancy holds office until the date on which the term of office of the member whose vacancy he fills would have expired.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) a person appointed as a replacement for an elected member shall be treated as an elected member.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1619/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:37:56.068149+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."
}