Statutory Instruments made by the National Assembly for Wales

"the 1998 Act" ("Deddf 1998") means the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998;

"the eligibility criteria" ("y meini prawf cymhwyso") means the criteria determined by the relevant authority as the criteria which a person must meet to be eligible to be nominated, by the relevant body concerned, for appointment to the schools forum established by that authority.

"non-schools member" ("aelod o'r tu allan i'r ysgolion"), in relation to a schools forum, means a member other than a schools member;

"relevant authority" ("awdurdod perthnasol"), in relation to a schools forum, means the local education authority by whom the forum is established;

"relevant body" ("corff perthnasol") means any body (including any body or person referred to in regulation 5(4)(a), (b) and (c) and the authority itself but excluding the National Council for Education and Training for Wales) which is identified by a relevant authority as appropriate for representation on a forum;

"schools maintained by the relevant authority" ("ysgolion a gynhelir gan yr ysgolion perthnasol") means all community, community special, foundation, foundation special and voluntary schools maintained by the relevant authority; and

"schools member" ("aelod ysgolion"), in relation to a schools forum, means a member elected to represent governing bodies or head teachers of schools maintained by the relevant authority.

    (4) In these Regulations, a reference to a governing body does not include a reference to the temporary governing body of a new school (within the meaning of section 72(3) of the 1998 Act) and a reference to a governor does not include a reference to a member of the temporary governing body of a new school.

(a) the relevant authority must make arrangements with a view to securing that schools members include a proportionate number both of representatives of primary schools and of representatives of secondary schools, having regard to the total number of pupils at primary schools, the total number of pupils at secondary schools and the total number of schools members to be elected under those procedures who are to be representatives of primary and secondary schools;

(b) where the relevant authority maintain one or more special schools, they must secure that at least one schools member is a representative of such a school; and

(c) where the relevant authority maintain schools of different school categories, the arrangements made by them by virtue of sub-paragraph (a) must secure that the representatives of primary and secondary schools appointed by them include at least one person who is a representative of a school in each such school category.

    (3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(c), the following are school categories  - 

(a) community schools;

(b) foundation schools; and

(c) voluntary schools.

    (4) The relevant authority must secure that so far as practicable at least one schools member is a parent governor.

    (5) In this regulation  - 

(a) "primary school" ("ysgol gynradd") means a primary school maintained by the relevant authority but excludes a nursery school;

(b) "secondary school" ("ysgol uwchradd") means a secondary school maintained by the relevant authority;

(c) "representative" ("cynrychiolwr") means either a head teacher or a governor of a school maintained by the relevant authority;

(d) "special school" ("ysgol arbennig") means a community special school or a foundation special school.

(a) the exercise of the relevant authority's functions relating to their schools budget; and

(b) any prospective revisions to the relevant authority's scheme for the financing of schools.