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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2005/schedule-5/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2005/2914",
  "legislation_title": "The Government of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-maintained-schools-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Persons whose employment is prohibited or restricted",
  "text": "A person is disqualified from holding or from continuing to hold office as a governor of a school at any time when he or she is—\n(a) included in the list of teachers and workers with children or young persons whose employment is prohibited or restricted under section 1 of the Protection of Children Act 1999;\n(b) subject to a direction of the National Assembly for Wales or the Secretary of State under section 142 of the 2002 Act;\n(ba) barred from regulated activity relating to children in accordance with section 3(2) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006;\n(bb) subject to a direction by the appropriate authority under section 167A of the Education Act 2002;\n(bc) disqualified from registration under Part 2 of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 for childminding or providing day care;\n(bd) disqualified from registration under Part 3 of the Childcare Act 2006;\n(c) disqualified from working with children under sections 28, 29 or 29A of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000; or\n(d) by virtue of an order made under section 470 or section 471 of the 1996 Act, disqualified from being the proprietor of any independent school or from being a teacher or other employee in any school.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 9(ba)(bb) inserted (12.10.2009) by The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2544), regs. 1(1), 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 9(bc)(bd) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Federation of Maintained Schools and Miscellaneous Amendments (Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/638), regs. 1(1), 87(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 9(bc) substituted (1.4.2011) by S.I. 2010/2582, Sch. 4 para. 9(2) (as inserted by The Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 (Commencement No.2, Savings and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) and (Consequential Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/577), art. 2(3), Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 9(c) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Federation of Maintained Schools and Miscellaneous Amendments (Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/638), regs. 1(1), 87(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 9 in force at 31.10.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 14; as amended by the Care Standards Act 2000 (2000 c. 14)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Repealed by the 2002 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/2914/schedule/5/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:05:28.791574+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."
}