{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parent-governor-representatives-england-regulations-2001/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parent-governor-representatives-england-regulations-2001/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/478",
  "legislation_title": "The Parent Governor Representatives (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parent-governor-representatives-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Disqualification from holding office as a parent governor representative",
  "text": "(1) A parent governor representative who qualified for election under these Regulations shall cease to be qualified to hold that office if—\n(a) he resigns or is disqualified from the office of parent governor,\n(b) he ceases to be a parent governor for any reason other than—\n(i) he has completed his term of office, or\n(ii) he no longer holds office as a result of the discontinuance of the school at which he was a parent governor, or\n(iii) he no longer holds office as a result of a change in the constitution of the governing body of the school at which he was a parent governor.\n(2) A parent governor representative shall cease to be qualified to hold that office if he is elected as a member of a local authority.\n(3) A parent governor representative shall cease to be qualified to hold that office if he takes up employment—\n(a) whether as a teacher or otherwise, in a school maintained by the local education authority, or\n(b) with the local authority.\n(4) A parent governor representative shall not hold the office of parent governor representative on an education overview and scrutiny committee of more than one local education authority at any one time.\n(5) A parent governor representative who has failed to attend the meetings of an education overview and scrutiny committee of which he is a member for a continuous period of six months beginning with the date of a meeting, shall, on the expiry of that period, cease to be qualified to hold that office.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), a parent governor representative shall not be taken to have failed to attend a meeting of an education overview and scrutiny committee if he has tendered an apology for his absence and that apology has been accepted by the committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/478/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:02:01.164626+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."
}