SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Executive arrangements F1in Wales: further provision
Overview and scrutiny committees: education functions
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This paragraph applies to an overview and scrutiny committee of a relevant F7... authority if the committee’s functions under section 21 relate wholly or partly to any education functions which are the responsibility of the authority’s executive.
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This paragraph also applies to a sub-committee of an overview and scrutiny committee of a relevant F5... authority if the sub-committee’s functions under section 21 relate wholly or partly to any education functions which are the responsibility of the authority’s executive.
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An overview and scrutiny committee or sub-committee to which this paragraph applies must include one or more persons appointed as representatives of the persons who appoint foundation governors for the maintained schools which are maintained by the authority concerned and which are specified in directions made by the F4Welsh Ministers as schools which have a character connected with a particular religion, or particular religious denomination, specified in the directions.
5
Sub-paragraph (4) does not apply if there are no maintained schools which are maintained by the authority concerned and which are specified in directions under that sub-paragraph.
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A member of an overview and scrutiny committee or sub-committee appointed by virtue of sub-paragraph (4) is to be entitled to vote at a meeting of the committee or sub-committee on any question—
a
which relates to any education functions which are the responsibility of the authority concerned’s executive, and
b
which falls to be decided at the meeting.
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The F8Welsh Ministers may by directions to a relevant F3... authority require any of the authority’s overview and scrutiny committees or sub-committees to which this paragraph applies to include persons who are appointed, in accordance with the directions, as representatives of the persons who appoint foundation governors for such of the maintained schools which are maintained by the authority concerned and which are not specified in directions under sub-paragraph (4) as may be specified in directions under this sub-paragraph.
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Directions under sub-paragraph (7) may make provision with respect to the voting rights of persons appointed in accordance with such directions.
Words in Sch. 1 heading inserted (4.5.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), s. 240(2), Sch. 3 para. 72(1)(2); S.I. 2012/1008, art. 4(b)