The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

Lay persons N.I.

102A .F1 —(1) The Department may appoint a panel of persons to act as lay persons in inspections conducted under Article 102.

(2) A person shall not be appointed to the panel unless he is, in the opinion of the Department, without significant personal experience in the management of relevant establishments and the provision of education (otherwise than as a member of the managing body of such an establishment or in any other voluntary capacity).

(3) The Department may remove a person from the panel at any time.

(4) The Department may assign a member of the panel to be a lay person for the purposes of an inspection of any relevant establishment to be conducted under Article 102 but shall ensure that no person is so assigned if he has, or at any time had, any connection with—

(a) the establishment in question;

(b) any person who is employed at that establishment;

(c) any person who is a member of the managing body of that establishment;

(d) where the establishment is an independent school, the proprietor of the school,

of a kind which might reasonably be taken to raise doubts about his ability to act impartially in relation to that establishment.

(5) The Department may, with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, pay to members of the panel such allowances and expenses as the Department may determine.

(6) In this Article “managing body” means—

(a) in relation to a school, the Board of Governors;

(b) in relation to an institution of further education, the governing body;

(c) in relation to any other relevant establishment, the body responsible for its management.

F1 certain functions transf. by SR 1999/481