Education Act 1996

Qualifications of governors and tenure of office E+W

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.