Textual Amendments
F1 Sch. renumbered as Sch. 1 (temp.) (24.4.2020) by virtue of The School Admissions (England) (Coronavirus) (Appeals Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/446), regs. 1, 10(a) (with regs. 2, 3(2), 4, 5); (as amended (31.1.2021) by The School Admissions (England) (Coronavirus) (Appeals Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/14), regs. 1, 2 and (7.7.2022) by The School Admissions (England) (Coronavirus) (Appeals Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/662), regs. 1, 2)
1.—(1) Where arrangements are made by a local authority or a governing body of a foundation or voluntary aided school for an appeal under section 94 of SSFA 1998, an appeal panel must consist of a minimum of three members appointed by the relevant local authority or governing body from—
(a)persons who are eligible to be lay members, and
(b)persons who have experience in education, are acquainted with educational conditions in the area of the authority or are parents of registered pupils at a school.
(2) Of the members of an appeal panel—
(a)at least one must be a person who is eligible to be a lay member and is appointed as such; and
(b)at least one must be a person falling with sub-paragraph (1)(b).
(3) For the purposes of this paragraph a person is eligible to be a lay member if that person has no personal experience in the management of any school or the provision of education in any school (disregarding any such experience as a governor or in any other voluntary capacity).
(4) No person may be a member of an appeal panel if that person is disqualified by paragraph 4.
(5) In this paragraph, “registered pupil” has the meaning in section 434(5) of the Education Act 1996 M1.