PART 6INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT, STAFFING, SCHOOL COUNCILS AND CHARITABLE STATUS

Other requirements relating to instruments of government43.

(1)

The local authority must ensure that the persons set out in paragraph (2) are provided (free of charge) with—

(a)

a copy of the federation’s instrument of government; and

(b)

where any variation is made to the federation’s instrument of government, a consolidated version of the instrument of government incorporating all variations made by the local authority (other than any variations which have ceased to have effect).

(2)

The persons who are to be provided with the information referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a)

every member of the governing body of the federation;

(b)

the head teacher of the federation or each federated school, whether or not the head teacher is a member of the governing body;

(c)

the trustees of any trust relating to a federation school;

(d)

in the case of a Church in Wales federated school or Roman Catholic Church federated school, the appropriate diocesan authority;

(e)

in the case of any other federated school designated under section 69(3) of the 1998 Act as having a religious character, the appropriate religious body; and

(f)

the Welsh Ministers.