The Parent Governor Representatives (England) Regulations 2001

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations:

“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1);

“the 2000 Act” means the Local Government Act 2000;

“the date of the election”, in relation to an election in which votes can be cast on more than one date, means the last date on which votes can be cast or postal votes received;

“education overview and scrutiny committee” means an overview and scrutiny committee or sub-committee of a local education authority appointed under section 21 of the 2000 Act, the functions of which relate wholly or partly to any education functions which are the responsibility of the authority’s executive;

“parent governor” means—

(a)

a person who is elected as a member of a maintained school’s governing body by parents of registered pupils at the school and is himself such a parent at the time when he is elected;

(b)

a person who is appointed as a parent governor by the governing body in accordance with regulations under the 1998 Act(2);

(c)

a person who continues as a parent governor for the purposes of the reconstitution of the governing body on transition to the new schools framework by virtue of regulations under Part II of the 1998 Act(3);

“parent governor representative” means, save where the context otherwise admits, a person elected in accordance with regulations 4 to 6 or treated in accordance with regulation 13 as so elected;

“relevant committee” means a committee or sub-committee appointed by a local authority, or by two or more local authorities, in accordance with section 102 of the Local Government Act 1972(4) wholly or partly for the purpose of discharging any functions which are conferred on the local authority or authorities in their capacity as a local education authority or authorities, but it does not include any committee the decisions of which are subject to scrutiny by another committee which is itself a relevant committee;

“types of school” means maintained schools which are primary, secondary or special schools, excluding nursery schools which are special schools.

(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, the expressions used in these Regulations set out in the first column of the table below have the meaning given by (or, as the case may be, are to be interpreted in accordance with), the provisions referred to in the second column of that table:

“alternative arrangements”	section 32 of the 2000 Act;
“executive”	section 11 of the 2000 Act;
“executive arrangements”	section 10 of the 2000 Act;
“maintained school”	section 20(7) of the 1998 Act;
“school maintained by a local education authority”	section 142(1) of the 1998 Act.

(1)

1998 c. 31.

(2)

See regulations 9 and 12 of, and Schedules 2, 4 and 5 to, the Education (School Government) (England) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2163).

(3)

See regulations 13 and 20 of the Education (School Government) (Transition to New Framework) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2763).

(4)

1972 c. 70. Section 102 was amended by section 108(5) of, and paragraph 31(1) of Schedule 13 to, the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), and by sections 13(8) and 194 of, and Part II of Schedule 12 to, the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).