The Federation of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2014

Foundation governors

20.—(1) In these Regulations—

(a) “foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydledig”) 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 local authority, and who—

(i) where the federation includes a federated school which has a particular religious character(1), is appointed for the purpose of securing that that character is preserved and developed at that federated school;

(ii) 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

(iii) 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;

(b) “ex officio foundation governor” (“llywodraethwr sefydledig ex officio”) means a foundation governor who is the holder of an office by virtue of which that person is entitled to be a foundation governor;

(c) “substitute governor” (“dirprwy-lywodraethwr”) means a foundation governor appointed to act in place of an ex officio foundation governor—

(i) who is unwilling or unable to act as governor;

(ii) who has been removed as a governor under regulation 38(2); or

(iii) if there is a vacancy in the office by virtue of which such a governorship exists.

(2) An ex officio foundation governor is, upon ceasing to hold the office from which that person’s governorship derives, disqualified from continuing to hold office as such a governor.

(1)

As designated by Order of the Welsh Ministers under section 69(3) of the 1998 Act.