1In this Schedule—
"arrangement" means (except in paragraph 2(2)(b) or 19) an arrangement made under section 12 of this Act for the constitution of a temporary governing body for a new school;
" new school" means any school, or proposed school, which is required to have a temporary governing body or in respect of which the local education authority have power to make an arrangement under section 12(4) ;
" relevant proposal" means the proposal (of a kind mentioned in section 12) by reference to which the school in question is a new school; and
" temporary governor " means any member of a temporary governing body.
2(1)Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, every temporary governing body shall be constituted—
(a)in accordance with the provisions of sections 3 and 7 of this Act, in the case of a school whose governing body will be required to be constituted in accordance with those provisions; and
(b)in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of this Act, in the case of a school whose governing body will be required to be constituted in accordance with those provisions.
(2)For the purpose of the application of section 3, 4 or 7 of this Act in relation to the constitution of its temporary governing body, a new school shall be treated as having as registered pupils the maximum number of pupils referred to—
(a)in the relevant proposal; or
(b)in the case of a new school which will be a special school; in the arrangements for the school approved by the Secretary of State in accordance with regulations made under section 12 of the 1981 Act (approval of special schools).
(3)In co-opting any person (otherwise than as a temporary foundation or teacher governor) to be a member of a temporary governing body of a new school which will be a county, controlled or maintained special school, the temporary governors concerned shall—
(a)have regard—
(i)to the extent to which they and the other temporary governors are members of the local business community ; and
(ii)to any representations made to the temporary governing body as to the desirability of increasing the connection between the temporary governing body and that community; and
(b)where it appears to them that no temporary governor of the new school is a member of the local business community, or that it is desirable to increase the number of temporary governors who are, co-opt a person who appears to them to be a member of that community.
(4)The first meeting of any temporary governing body shall be called—
(a)by their clerk ; or
(b)where he fails to call it within such period as the local education authority consider reasonable, by the authority.