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

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2406/article/80/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 VIINTEGRATED EDUCATION

CHAPTER IIGRANT-MAINTAINED INTEGRATED SCHOOLS

Discontinuance of grant-maintained integrated schools

Discontinuance by Board of Governors80

1

The Board of Governors of a grant-maintained integrated school shall not discontinue the school except in accordance with this Article.

2

Where the Board of Governors of such a school—

a

decides by a resolution passed at a meeting of that body to discontinue the school; and

b

confirms that decision by a resolution passed at a subsequent meeting of that body held not less than twenty-eight days after that at which the first resolution was passed;

it shall, subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), give at least two years' notice of its intention to discontinue the school to the Department and to the board for the area in which the school is situated.

3

No notice given under paragraph (2) without the prior approval of the Department shall be effective if the school premises were built or altered with the aid of a grant from the Department or financial assistance by a board or, before 1st October 1973, by a former local education authority.

4

The requirement to give notice under paragraph (2) shall not apply where the Department and the board for the area in which the school is situated agree to dispense with that notice.

5

If, during the period of a notice given under paragraph (2) in respect of a school, the Board of Governors of the school informs the Department that it is unable or unwilling to carry on the school until the expiration of the notice, the Department may give such directions as to the carrying on of the school and as to the education of the children attending the school as it thinks expedient.

6

Where—

a

the period of a notice given under paragraph (2) has expired; or

b

the requirement to give that notice has been dispensed with under paragraph (4),

the Board of Governors may submit a proposal to discontinue the school to the board for the area in which the school is situated and that board shall submit the proposal to the Department together with its views thereon.

7

Paragraphs (4) to (7), (9), (9A), (9B) and (10) of Article 14 of the principal Order shall apply in relation to a proposal under paragraph (6) as they apply in relation to a proposal under paragraph (2) of that Article.