Regulation 17 Foundation governors
In these Regulations,
means a person who is appointed to be a member of the governing body of a federation in respect of a particular federated school, otherwise than by the authority, and who—
where the federation includes a federated school which has a particular religious characterf1, is appointed for the purpose of securing that that character is preserved and developed at that federated school;
where the federation includes a federated school to which a trust relates, is appointed for the purpose of securing that the federated school is conducted in accordance with that trust; or
where the federation includes a school which has neither a religious character nor a trust, is appointed as a foundation governor of the federation by a person previously named in the federated school’s instrument of government as having the power to appoint foundation governors;
“ex officio foundation governor” means a foundation governor who is the holder of an office by virtue of which he is entitled to be a foundation governor;
“substitute governor”f2 means a foundation governor appointed to act in the place of an ex officio foundation governor who is unwilling or unable to act as a governor or has been removed from office under regulation 23(2) of the Constitution Regulations.
An ex officio foundation governor is, upon ceasing to hold the office from which his governorship derives, disqualified from continuing to hold office as such a governor.
Annotations
Footnotes
- f1
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As designated by Order of the Secretary of State under section 69(3) of the 1998 Act.
- f2
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Referred to in regulation 21 of the Constitution Regulations as it applies to federations pursuant to regulation 28 of and Schedule 7 to these Regulations.