http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/1989/2406

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2406/article/159/made

The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

School admissions

School governance, management and finance

School welfare, behaviour and attendance

Special educational needs and additional support

Attendance and truancy

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2020-06-18

NORTHERN IRELAND

In this Order—Part II sets out the general duty of the Department in relation to education;Part III makes provision for the curriculum in grant-aided schools and for the establishment and functions of the Northern Ireland Curriculum Council and the Northern Ireland Schools Examinations and Assessment Council;Part IV regulates the admission of children to grant-aided schools;Part V provides for the financing by boards of controlled and maintained schools and for the delegation to the Boards of Governors of those schools of the management of all or part of the school’s budget share and of certain responsibilities in relation to staff and makes new provision for the funding of voluntary grammar schools;Part VI provides for the establishment and management of grant-maintained integrated schools and controlled integrated schools;Part VII restates the functions of boards in relation to further and higher education, makes new provision for the management of institutions of further education, provides for the financing by boards of institutions of further education and for the delegation to the governing bodies of such institutions of the management of the institution’s budget and of certain responsibilities in relation to staff;Part VIII makes provision in relation to the management of grant-aided schools and regulates the making of charges in such schools;Part IX provides for the constitution and functions of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools;Part X contains miscellaneous provisions relating to education.

The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

art. 13(3)(b)

The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015

Sch. 12

Pt. 1

art. 2(2)

PART XMISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTARY

Miscellaneous amendments to the principal Order

Grants for provision of educational or library services, etc.159

For Article 115 of the principal Order there shall be substituted the following Article—

Grants for educational or library services, etc.115
1
Subject to paragraph (3), the Department may, in accordance with regulations made with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, pay grants to persons in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them—
a
for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provision (or proposed provision) of—
i
educational or library services; or
ii
recreational, social, cultural, physical or youth service activities or services ancillary to education;
b
for the purposes of research relevant to the functions of the Department or of boards under the Education Orders.
2
Regulations under paragraph (1) may prescribe the rates of grants which may be paid under that paragraph.
3
The Department shall not pay grants under this Article to—
a
a board; or
b
the trustees or managers of—
i
a voluntary school; or
ii
a grant-maintained integrated school.
4
Paragraph (5) applies where—
a
the Department has, after the coming into operation of Article 159 of the 1989 Order, paid a grant under this Article to a person in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by him for the provision or alteration of premises; and
b
those premises cease to be used for approved purposes.
5
Where this paragraph applies there shall be payable to the Department by the person to whom the grant was paid or his successor in title such sum as the Department considers equitable but not exceeding such proportion of the value of the premises as the proportion that the amount of the grant was of the approved cost of the provision or alteration of the premises together with interest on that sum from the date on which the premises ceased to be used for approved purposes until the date of payment to the Department.
6
For the purposes of paragraph (5) the value of premises shall be taken to be the amount which the premises might be expected to realise if sold in the open market on the date on which the premises ceased to be used for approved purposes and where the Department certifies that it is not possible to reach agreement as to such value, the dispute as to such value may be referred to and determined by the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland.
7
For the purposes of paragraph (5) interest shall be at such rate as may from time to time be determined by the Department of Finance and Personnel under paragraph 18(2) of Schedule 6 to the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 197213.
8
Any sum payable or repayable to the Department under this Article may be recovered as a debt due to the Department.