4.—(1) The following persons are disqualified from membership of an appeal panel—
(a)any member of the local authority which is making the arrangements or which maintains the school in question;
(b)any member or former member of the governing body of the school in question;
(c)any person employed by the authority or the governing body of the school in question, other than a person employed as a teacher or as a teaching assistant;
(d)any person who has, or at any time has had, any connection with the authority or the school in question, or with any person within sub-paragraph (c), of a kind which might reasonably be taken to raise doubts about that person’s ability to act impartially in relation to the authority or the school;
(e)any person who has not attended training required by the local authority or governing body arranging the appeal panel.
(2) A person employed as a teacher or as a teaching assistant by the local authority or by the governing body of another school maintained by the authority may not be taken, by reason only of that employment, to have such a connection with the authority as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(d).
(3) A person who is a teacher or a teaching assistant at a school may not be a member of an appeal panel for the consideration of an appeal involving a question whether a child is to be admitted to that school.
(4) A person may not be a member of an appeal panel for the consideration of an appeal against a decision if the person was among those who made the decision or provided information which contributed to the decision.
(5) A teaching assistant is a person who carries out work under paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the Education (Specified Work and Registration) (England) Regulations 2003(1).