PART IINTRODUCTORY

Title and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.

(2) Except as provided by paragraph (3), this Order shall come into operation on the expiration of two months from the date on which it is made.

(3) The following provisions of this Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Department may by order appoint—

(4) An order under paragraph (3) may—

(a)make such transitional provision as appears to the Department to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into operation by the order;

(b)include such adaptations of the provisions which it brings into operation, or of any other provision of this Order then in operation, as appears to the Department necessary or expedient for the purpose or in consequence of the operation of any provision of this Order (including in particular, the provisions which the order brings into operation) before the coming into operation of any other provision.