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Effect of notice under section 64(1) or 68(1)
3     (1)
On the date specified in the notice under section 64(1) or 68(1), the existing
governors vacate office.
      (2)
Sub-paragraph (1) does not prevent the appointment of an existing governor
as an interim executive member.
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      (3)
During the interim period, any reference in any provision contained in, or
made under, the Education Acts to a governor or foundation governor of a
school has effect, in relation to the school, as a reference to an interim
executive member.
      (4)
During the interim period, section 83 of SSFA 1998 (modification of
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provisions making governors of foundation or voluntary school ex officio
trustees) has effect in relation to the school with the substitution for
paragraphs (a) to (c) of a reference to the interim executive members.
Interim executive members
4     (1)
The number of interim executive members must not be less than two.
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      (2)
The initial appointment of interim executive members must be made so as to
take effect on the date specified in the relevant notice.
      (3)
The appropriate authority may appoint further interim executive members
at any time during the interim period.
5     (1)
Every appointment of an interim executive member must be made by an
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instrument in writing setting out the terms of his appointment.
      (2)
An interim executive member—
(a)
holds office in accordance with the terms of his appointment and
subject to paragraph 18, and
(b)
may at any time be removed from office by the appropriate authority
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for incapacity or misbehaviour.
      (3)
The terms of appointment of an interim executive member may provide for
his appointment to be terminable by the appropriate authority by notice.
Duty of appropriate authority to inform other persons
6     (1)
The appropriate authority must give a copy of the notice under section 64(1)
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or 68(1) and of every instrument of appointment of an interim executive
member—
(a)
to every interim executive member,
(b)
to every existing governor of the school,
(c)
where the local education authority are the appropriate authority, to
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the Secretary of State,
(d)
where the Secretary of State is the appropriate authority, to the local
education authority,
(e)
in the case of a foundation or voluntary school which is a Church of
England school or a Roman Catholic Church school, to the
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appropriate diocesan authority, and
(f)
in the case of any other foundation or voluntary school, to the person
or persons by whom the foundation governors are appointed.

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      (2)
A failure to comply with sub-paragraph (1) does not invalidate the notice or
appointment.
Power to specify duration of interim period
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The appropriate authority may in the notice under section 64(1) or 68(1)
specify the duration of the interim period.
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Chairman
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The appropriate authority may nominate one of the interim executive
members to be chairman of the interim executive board.
Remuneration and allowances
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The appropriate authority may pay to any interim executive member such
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remuneration and allowances as the appropriate authority may determine.
Duty of interim executive board
10    (1)
During the interim period, the interim executive board shall conduct the
school so as to secure, so far as is practicable to do so, the provision of a
sound basis for future improvement in the conduct of the school.
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      (2)
Sub-paragraph (1) is without prejudice to the other duties of the interim
executive board as governing body.
Proceedings of interim executive board
11    (1)
The interim executive board may determine their own procedure.
      (2)
The interim executive board may make such arrangements as they think fit
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for the discharge of their functions by any other person.
Effect on suspension of delegated budget
12    (1)
If, immediately before the date specified in the notice under section 64(1) or
68(1), the school does not have a delegated budget, the suspension of the
governing body’s right to a delegated budget is by virtue of this sub-
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paragraph revoked with effect from that date.
      (2)
If a notice under paragraph 1 of Schedule 15 to SSFA 1998 (suspension of
delegated budget for mismanagement etc) has been given to the governing
body before the date specified in a notice under section 64(1) or 68(1) but has
not yet taken effect, the notice under that paragraph ceases to have effect on
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that date.
      (3)
During the interim period, the local education authority may not exercise
the power conferred by section 65 (power to suspend right to delegated
budget).
      (4)
Sub-paragraph (1) is to be construed in accordance with section 49(7) of
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SSFA 1998.

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Exclusion of certain statutory provisions
13    (1)
Regulations made by virtue of subsection (2) or (3) of section 19 of EA 2002
(governing bodies) shall not apply in relation to the interim executive board.
      (2)
The instrument of government of the school shall not, so far as it relates to
the constitution of the governing body, have effect in relation to the interim
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executive board.
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During the interim period—
(a)
the local education authority may not exercise any power conferred
by section 63 (power to appoint additional governors), and
(b)
the Secretary of State may not exercise any power conferred by
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section 66 (power to appoint additional governors).
Closure of school
15    (1)
At any time during the interim period, the interim executive board may, if
they think fit, make a report to the local education authority and the
Secretary of State recommending that the school be discontinued, and
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stating the reasons for that recommendation.
      (2)
The interim executive board may not—
(a)
publish under section 15(2) proposals to discontinue the school, or
(b)
serve notice under section 30 of SSFA 1998.
16    (1)
Where during the interim period—
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(a)
the Secretary of State gives a direction under section 17(1) or 67(1) in
relation to the school, or
(b)
the local education authority determine to discontinue the school,

the interim period is to continue until the discontinuance date, even where
it would otherwise end before that date.
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      (2)
In this paragraph “the discontinuance date” means—
(a)
the date on which proposals for discontinuing the school are
implemented under Part 4 of Schedule 2,
(b)
the date on which the school is discontinued under section 30 of
SSFA 1998, or
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(c)
the date specified in the direction under section 17(1) or 67(1),

as the case may be.
Notice of resumption of government by normally constituted governing body
17    (1)
Where—
(a)
the notice under section 64(1) or 68(1) did not specify the duration of
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the interim period, and
(b)
paragraph 16 does not apply,

the appropriate authority may give notice to the persons mentioned in sub-
paragraph (2) specifying a date on which the governing body are to become
a normally constituted governing body.
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      (2)
The persons referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—
(a)
every interim executive member,

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(b)
where the local education authority are the appropriate authority,
the Secretary of State,
(c)
where the Secretary of State is the appropriate authority, the local
education authority,
(d)
in the case of a foundation or voluntary school which is a Church of
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England school or a Roman Catholic Church school, the appropriate
diocesan authority, and
(e)
in the case of any other foundation or voluntary school, the person or
persons by whom the foundation governors are appointed.
Time when interim executive members cease to hold office
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18    (1)
The interim executive members vacate office—
(a)
in a case where paragraph 16 applies, on the discontinuance date
within the meaning of that paragraph,
(b)
in a case where that paragraph does not apply and the notice under
section 64(1) or 68(1) specified the duration of the interim period, at
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the end of the specified period, and
(c)
in any case, on the date specified under paragraph 17(1).
      (2)
Sub-paragraph (1) does not prevent the termination of the appointment of
an interim executive member at any earlier time under paragraph 5(2)(b) or
in accordance with the terms of his appointment.
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Establishment of normally constituted governing body
19    (1)
Where interim executive members are to vacate office on the date referred to
in paragraph 18(1)(b) or (c), the local education authority must make
arrangements providing for the constitution of the governing body on and
after that date.
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      (2)
The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision with respect to the
transition from an interim executive board to a normally constituted
governing body, and may in connection with that transition—
(a)
modify any provision made under any of sections 19, 20 and 23 of EA
2002 or by Schedule 1 to that Act,
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(b)
apply any such provision with or without modifications, and
(c)
make provision corresponding to or similar to any such provision.
      (3)
The provision that may be made by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) includes, in
particular, provision enabling governors to be elected or appointed, and to
exercise functions, before the end of the interim period.
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