SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 8 Membership and proceedings etc. of governing bodies of county, voluntary and maintained special schools
Qualifications of governors and tenure of office
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.