The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

Provision of facilities for recreational, social, physical, cultural and youth service activities N.I.

37 .F1 —(1) Each board shall secure the provision for its area of adequate facilities for recreational, social, physical, cultural and youth service activities and for services ancillary to education and for that purpose may, with the approval of the Department, either alone or together with any other board or any other person—

(a) establish, maintain and manage any such facilities;

(b) organise any such activities;

(c) assist, by financial contributions or otherwise, any person to establish, maintain and manage any such facilities or to organise any such activities;

(d) provide, or assist by financial contribution or otherwise in the provision of, leaders for such activities; and

(e) defray or contribute towards the expenses of any persons taking part in any such activities.

(2) A board shall, in carrying out its functions under paragraph (1), have regard to the facilities provided by other boards and by other persons.

(3) A board may from time to time make bye-laws for all or any of the following purposes—

(a) for regulating the use and management of any lands or buildings provided by it for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (1);

(b) for regulating the days and times of, and charges for, admission to such lands or buildings;

(c) for the preservation of order and prevention of nuisances in such lands and buildings;

and such bye-laws may authorise persons employed by the board to enforce the bye-laws and to take all steps and do all acts and things necessary for that purpose and, in particular authorise such persons or members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary after due warning to remove or exclude from any place with respect to which any such bye-laws are for the time being in force a person who commits, or who is reasonably suspected of committing, in that place an offence against any such bye-law or against section 4 of the [1824 c. 83.] Vagrancy Act 1824.

(4) Where a board has, for the purposes of paragraph (1), assumed responsibility for the maintenance and management of any lands or buildings situated outside its area, bye-laws relating to such lands or buildings shall not be confirmed without consultation with the board for the area in which such lands or buildings are situated.

F1 certain functions transf. by SR 1999/481