The Education (Transition to New Framework) (New Schools, Groups and Miscellaneous) Regulations 1999

2.  In appointing a person to be a co-opted governor, the relevant governors—

(a)shall have regard to the extent to which the governing body of the maintained school will include members of the local community;

(b)shall have regard to any representations made to the governing body as to the desirability of increasing the connection between the governing body of the maintained school and the local community; and

(c)where it appears to them that no member of the governing body of the maintained school will otherwise be a member of the local community or that it is desirable to increase the number of governors who will be members of the local community, shall co-opt a person who appears to them to be a member of that community.