The Parent Governor Representatives and Church Representatives (Wales) Regulations 2001

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

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

• “the 1999 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1999”) means the Education (Parent Governor Representatives) (Wales) Regulations 1999(2)

• “the 2000 Act” (“Deddf 2000”) means the Local Government Act 2000;

• “alternative arrangements” (“trefniadau amgen”) has the meaning given to it by section 32 of the 2000 Act;

• “the date of the election” (“dyddiad yr etholiad”), 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” (“pwyllgor trosolygu a chraffu addysg”) means —

  (a)

  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; or

  (b)

  a committee or sub-committee of a local education authority appointed in accordance with provision included in alternative arrangements by virtue of section 32(1)(b) of the 2000 Act (arrangements for the appointment of committees or sub-committees to review or scrutinise decisions made, or other action taken, in connection with the discharge of functions of the authority) the functions of which relate wholly or partly to any education functions which are the responsibility of the authority(3);

• “executive” (“gweithrediaeth”) has the meaning given to it by section 11 of the 2000 Act;

• “executive arrangements” (“trefniadau gweithrediaeth”) has the meaning given to it by section 10 of the 2000 Act;

• “local education authority” (“awdurdod addysg lleol”) means a local education authority in Wales;

• “parent governor” (“rhiant-lywodraethwr”) means —

  (a)

  a person who is —

  (i)

  elected as a member of a school’s governing body by parents of registered pupils at the school; and

  (ii)

  a parent of such a pupil at the time when he or she is elected; or

  (b)

  a person who is appointed as a parent governor by the governing body in accordance with regulations under the 1998 Act(4); or

  (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(5);

• “parent governor representative” (“cynrychiolydd rhiant-lywodraethwyr”) means a person elected in accordance with regulations 5 to 7 or treated in accordance with regulation 11 as so elected;

• “school” (“ysgol”) has the meaning given to “maintained school” by section 20(7) of the 1998 Act;

• “voting by category arrangements” (“trefniadau pleidleisio yn ôl categori”) means arrangements of a kind referred to in regulation 5(2).

(1)

1998 c. 31.

(2)

S.I. 1999/1900.

(3)

See the Local Authorities (Alternative Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/2285 (W.173)).

(4)

See regulations 9 and 12 of, and Schedules 2, 5 and 6 to, the Education (School Government) (Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2242 (W.2)).

(5)

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