31. The committees established under section 30 shall be composed of persons appointed by the Minister of Education, or as the case may be, the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology and persons appointed, as the case may be, by the group of school boards contemplated in paragraph 1 of section 30, the group of school boards contemplated in paragraph 2 of the said section or the group of colleges.
A group of school boards or a group of colleges includes an association, federation or other organization to which the majority of the school boards contemplated in paragraph 1 of section 30 or of the school boards contemplated in paragraph 2 of the said section, or of the colleges, belong and which is considered to be representative of such school boards or colleges by the Minister of Education or, as the case may be, the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, if it is not already recognized as such by law.