SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 8

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Amendments (Textual)

Qualifications of governors and tenure of office

8

No person shall be qualified for membership of a governing body unless he is aged 18 or over at the date of his election or appointment.

9

No person shall at any time hold more than one governorship of the same school.

10

1

Regulations may make provision as to the circumstances in which persons are to be disqualified for holding office as governors of schools.

2

The instrument of government for a school may make provision as to circumstances in which persons are to be disqualified for holding office as governors of the school.

3

The fact that a person is qualified to be elected or appointed as a governor of a particular category of a school does not disqualify him for election or appointment as a governor of any other category of that school.

11

1

The instrument of government for a county, controlled or maintained special school shall provide for each governor, other than one who is a governor ex officio, to hold office for a term of four years.

2

The instrument of government for an aided secondary school shall provide for each governor appointed by a person named in the instrument as a sponsor of the school to hold office for such term (not being less than five nor more than seven years) as may be specified in the instrument.

3

This paragraph shall not be taken to prevent a governor—

a

from being elected or appointed for a further term, or

b

from being disqualified, by virtue of provision made under paragraph 10, for continuing to hold office.

12

Any governor of a school may at any time resign his office.

13

1

Any governor of a school who was appointed otherwise than by being co-opted, or any foundation governor of a voluntary school, may be removed from office by the person or persons who appointed him.

2

For the purposes of this paragraph, a parent governor appointed in accordance with any provision made by virtue of section 81 shall be treated as having been co-opted.