The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

Article 133(1)

SCHEDULE 19 N.I. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

General N.I.

1.  In so far as anything done or having effect as if done under or in pursuance of any provision repealed by this Order could have been done under or in pursuance of a corresponding provision of this Order, it shall have effect as if done under or in pursuance of that provision. N.I.

2.  Where any period of time specified in any provision repealed by this Order is current at the coming into operation of this Order, this Order shall have effect as if the corresponding provision of this Order had been in force when that period began to run. N.I.

School management N.I.

3.—(1) This paragraph applies to a voluntary grammar school the trustees or governing body of which had entered into an agreement with the Department or [F1 the Authority] or boards under Schedule 6 to the 1972 Order which was existing immediately before 1st August 1984. N.I.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), and agreement made, or having effect as if made, by the trustees or governing body of a school to which this paragraph applies with the Department or [F1 the Authority] or boards under paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the 1972 Order and existing immediately before 1st August 1984 shall continue to have effect as if made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to this Order.

(3) Any reference in any such agreement to a period of years for which a person appointed to the Board of Governors of the school by the Head of the Department or by [F1 the Authority] or boards is to hold office shall, in relation to any appointment made on or after 1st August 1984, have effect as if it were a reference to a period of four years.

(4) Any scheme approved under Article 9(2) of the 1972 Order by the Department for a school to which this paragraph applies shall continue to have effect as if approved under Article 11(2) of this Order but, so far as it relates to the constitution of the Board of Governors of the school, shall have effect, in relation to any appointment of a Board of Governors made after 1st August 1984, subject to the provisions of paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to this Order.

F1 Words in Order substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3), Sch. 3 para. 1(2)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

4.—(1) This paragraph applies to a voluntary grammar school, the trustees or governing body of which had not entered into an agreement with the Department or [F1 the Authority] or boards under Schedule 6 to the 1972 Order which was existing immediately before 1st August 1984. N.I.

(2) Any scheme approved under Article 9(2) of the 1972 Order by the Department for a school to which this paragraph applies shall continue to have effect as if approved under Article 11(2) of this Order but, so far as it relates to the constitution of the Board of Governors of the school, shall have effect, in relation to any appointment of a Board of Governors made after 1st August 1984, subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to this Order.

F1 Words in Order substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3), Sch. 3 para. 1(2)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

Para. 5 rep. by 1996 NI 1

Para. 6 rep. by 1993 NI 12