Removal from office of the chairman of the governing body
30.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, the governing body (other than the temporary governing body of a new school) may remove the chairman from office.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a resolution to remove the chairman from office which is passed at a meeting of the governing body shall not have effect unless–
(a)it is confirmed by a resolution passed at a second meeting of the governing body held not less than fourteen days after the first meeting (“the second meeting”); and
(b)the matter of the chairman’s removal from office is specified as an item of business on the agenda for each of those meetings.
(3) Where the governing body include additional governors or additional foundation governors appointed under section 27 of the School Inspections Act 1996(1) or section 16 or 18 of the 1998 Act, paragraph (4) shall apply instead of paragraph (2).
(4) A resolution to remove the chairman from office which is passed at a meeting of the governing body shall not have effect unless the matter of the chairman’s removal from office is specified as an item of business on the agenda for that meeting.
(5) Before the governing body resolve at the relevant meeting on whether to confirm the resolution to remove the chairman from office, the governor or governors proposing his removal shall at that meeting state their reasons for doing so and the chairman shall be given an opportunity to make a statement in response.
(6) In paragraph (5), the reference to the relevant meeting is–
(a)in any case to which paragraph (2) applies, to the second meeting held to consider the chairman’s removal; and
(b)in any case to which paragraph (4) applies, to any meeting held to consider the chairman’s removal from office.
1996 c. 57. Such governors continue in office from 1st September by virtue of regulation 57 of the School Organisation Regulations.