Education (General Provisions) Regulation 2017

This section applies to a member of the school community (an aggrieved person) who made written representations, under section 59(4)(c), against a proposal to dissolve a school council.

If the council is dissolved under section 58, the aggrieved person may ask the Minister to review the chief executive’s decision that led to the dissolution.

The aggrieved person must give the Minister a notice stating the grounds for the review within 28 days after notice of the council’s dissolution is published in the gazette under section 58(1)(b).

The Minister must as soon as practicable after receiving the notice—

review the chief executive’s decision; and

decide to affirm or set aside the chief executive’s decision; and

give notice to the aggrieved person about the Minister’s decision and the reasons for it.

If the Minister decides to set aside the chief executive’s decision—

the council is taken not to have been dissolved; and

the Minister must, as soon as practicable after making the decision, publish a notice in the gazette stating—

the decision to dissolve the council has been set aside; and

the council is taken not to have been dissolved.