Regulation 9 Foundation governorsI1

In these Regulations—

• “foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydliedig”) means a person who is appointed as a governor otherwise than by the F1local authority and who—

  1. (a)

     where the school has a particular religious character^f1, is appointed for the purpose of securing that that character is preserved and developed,

  2. (b)

     where there is a trust relating to the school, is appointed for the purpose of securing that the school is conducted in accordance with that trust, or

  3. (c)

     where the school does not have a religious character and there is no trust relating to it, is appointed as a foundation governor of the school;

• “ex officio foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydliedig ex officio”) means a foundation governor who is the holder of an office by virtue of which he or she is entitled to be a foundation governor;

• “substitute governor” (“dirprwy lywodraethwr”) means a foundation governor appointed to act in the place of an ex officio foundation governor—

  1. (a)

     who is unwilling or unable to act as a governor,

  2. (b)

     who has been removed as a governor under regulation 27(2), or

  3. (c)

     if there is a vacancy in the office by virtue of which such a governorship exists.

An ex officio foundation governor is, upon ceasing to hold the office from which his or her governorship derives, disqualified from continuing to hold office as such a governor.