103Establishment of school representative body

103 Establishment of school representative body (1) The principal of a Government school must, if there is no school representative body established for the school, take reasonable steps each year to ensure that one is established for the school.

Education Act 2015 55 (2) Subject to subsection (3), the Minister may, by Gazette notice, at the request of a body involved in the management of, or from the community served by, one or more Government schools, establish a school representative body for the Government school or schools. (3) The Minister must not establish a school representative body under subsection (2) unless the Minister is satisfied that the school representative body will operate, on its establishment, in accordance with this Part. (4) A school representative body: (a) for a Government school that is an independent public school, may be referred to as an independent public school board; and (b) for any other Government school, may be referred to as a school council; and (c) for more than one Government school, may be referred to as a joint school representative body. (5) Subject to section 104(2), a school representative body consists of members in the classes of members prescribed by regulation, of which at least 50% must be parents of students enrolled at the Government school or any of the Government schools for which the school representative body is established. (6) The members of a school representative body hold office on the terms and conditions prescribed by regulation. (7) Without limiting subsection (6), the CEO may remove a member of a school representative body from office: (a) for misconduct; or (b) for failure or incapacity to carry out the duties of the office; or (c) for any other reasonable cause. (8) The Regulations may: (a) specify the procedure for the appointment of a chairperson; and (b) provide for the filling of casual vacancies; and (c) specify: (i) how meetings may be called; and

Education Act 2015 56 (ii) how many members constitute a quorum at a meeting; and (iii) how questions arising at a meeting are to be determined; and (iv) the business to be conducted, and procedure to be followed, at a meeting; and (v) the records to be kept of meetings.