PART VICOMMITTEES OF GOVERNING BODIES

Access to committee meetings56.

(1)

Where two or more schools are to be discontinued (“the discontinued schools”) and the registered pupils at those schools, or a substantial number of those pupils, are expected to transfer to a new school, the head teachers of the discontinued schools shall be entitled to attend any meeting of a committee of the temporary governing body of the new school until a head teacher is appointed for that new school, subject, however, to Part VII.

(2)

Any question whether any person who is not—

(a)

a member of a committee of the governing body, or the clerk to the committee, or

(b)

a head teacher entitled under this regulation to attend meetings of the committee,

should be allowed to attend any meetings thereof shall be determined by the committee concerned.