The College Councils (Scotland) Regulations 1990

Disqualification from membership

7.—(1) A person shall be disqualified from becoming or remaining a member of a college council if he–

(a) is a person who would be disqualified for seeking election as, or for being, a member of a local authority by virtue of subsection (1)(b) (as read with subsections (2) and (3)) or subsection (1)(c) of section 31 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1); or

(b) is subject to legal incapacity (except where he is aged 16 years or more and no cause of legal incapacity other than minority exists or occurs),

and the education authority shall declare vacant the place of a member so disqualified.

(2) A person shall be disqualified from remaining a member of a college council and the education authority shall declare his place vacant if he–

(a) fails to attend all meetings both of the college council and of any committee of the college council to which he has been appointed during a period of 6 months, without the consent of the college council;

(b) is unable, due to physical or mental illness or incapacity, to perform his duties as a member of the college council;

(c) has failed to comply with the requirements of regulation 8(2) or (4) below.

(3) A retiring member of a college council shall not be disqualified (by reason of such retirement) from further election.

(1)

1973 c. 65.