The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

Article 4(2)

SCHEDULE 3 N.I. CONSTITUTION OF TEACHING APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEES AND LIBRARY COMMITTEES

PART I N.I. TEACHING APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEES

1.  A teaching appointments committee shall consist of the following persons appointed by the board of which it is a committee— N.I.

(a) two principals of controlled schoolsF1 . . . appointed in accordance with paragraph 2;

(b) two persons who have been appointed to the board under paragraph 1(2)(b)(i) of Schedule 2 and nominated to the committee by a majority of the persons who have been so appointed;

(c) two persons nominated by the Head of the Department from amongst the persons appointed to the board by him under paragraph 1(2)(b)(iii) of Schedule 2;

(d) two district councillors nominated by the board from amongst those members appointed to the board under paragraph 1(2)(a) of Schedule 2;

and the quorum of a teaching appointments committee shall be four persons.

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2.—(1) The principals of controlled schools shall for the purposes of paragraph 1(a) be appointed as follows:— N.I.

(a) a board shall prepare a panel of principals serving in controlled schools under its management;

[F2 (b) subject to head (c), two principals from that panel shall be appointed by the board to attend each meeting of the teaching appointments committee;

(c) where it is not practicable to make any appointment in accordance with head (b) (whether because of unavailability or otherwise), the board may instead appoint one or (as the case may require) two principals from a panel prepared by any other board under head (a);

(d) different principals may be appointed under head (b) or (c) to attend different meetings of the committee.]

(2) If so authorised by a board, the chief education officer of the board or, in his absence, another officer of the board authorised by him for the purpose may, on behalf of the board, appoint the principals to the teaching appointments committee.

(3) The principals appointed to attend any meeting of a teaching appointments committee shall have the like right to speak and vote at that meeting as the other members of the committee.

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3.—(1) Substitutes for members of a teaching appointments committee may be nominated and appointed under sub-paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of paragraph 1 in like manner as the members are nominated and appointed. N.I.

(2) Where the chief education officer of the board which appointed the committee or, in his absence, another officer of the board duly authorised by him is informed that a member of the committee nominated and appointed under paragraph 1(b), (c) or (d) will be absent from a meeting of the committee or where such a member is disqualified by interest or otherwise from taking part in proceedings at such a meeting, he shall authorise the attendance at that meeting of a substitute, being the substitute or one of the substitutes attends, he shall have at that meeting all the functions of the member except that, if he attends a meeting as substitute for the member who is chairman of the committee, he shall not, unless the committee otherwise decides, be chairman at that meeting.

(3) The chief education officer of the board or a person nominated by him shall attend as assessor at each meeting of the teaching appointments committee of that board.

F3 4.—(1) Where a meeting of the teaching appointments committee is to be held to exercise any of the functions conferred on the committee by Part I of Schedule 14 in relation to a post in a school, the committee shall invite representatives of the school to attend the meeting for the purpose of advising the committee generally on matters relating to the school and the nature of the post. N.I.

(2) Representatives of the school invited to attend a meeting of the committee under this paragraph shall be entitled to be present at the meeting only for the purpose mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) and shall not be present during the interview of any candidate for the post nor during any discussion or decision relating to the appointment of any particular candidate to the post.

(3) In this paragraph—

(a) references to a post shall be construed in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 14;

(b) “representatives of the school” means—

(i) where the meeting is held in relation to the post of principal of the school, two members of the Board of Governors of the school, other than the principal;

(ii) where the meeting is held in relation to any other post in the school, one member of the Board of Governors of the school and the principal of the school or, where the principal is absent or otherwise unavailable, a teacher on the staff of the school.

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PART II N.I. LIBRARY COMMITTEES

5.  The library committee of a board shall consist of such members of the board as that board appoints thereto but shall include all members appointed to the board by reason of their interest in the public library service.