39.—(1) The minutes of the proceedings of a meeting of the governing body shall, subject to paragraph (2), be drawn up and entered into a book kept for the purpose by the person acting as clerk to the governing body for the purposes of the meeting; and shall be signed (subject to the approval of the governing body) at the same or next subsequent meeting by the person acting as chairman thereof.
(2) The minutes of proceedings of meetings may be entered on loose-leaf pages consecutively numbered; but in that case the person signing the minutes shall initial each page.
(3) The person acting as clerk to the governing body for the purposes of any meeting shall record immediately before the entry recording the minutes of that meeting in the book or pages used for that purpose the names of those members of the governing body and of any other person present at the meeting concerned.
(4) On request made in that behalf by the local education authority by whom a school is maintained, in relation to a particular meeting or generally, that authority shall be supplied with a copy of the draft or signed minutes of the relevant meeting or (as the case may be) of any meeting of the governing body of the school.