The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Making of significant change to grant-maintained integrated schools

Significant changes to grant-maintained integrated schools

79.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where the Board of Governors of a grant-maintained integrated school proposes—

(a) to make a significant change in the character or size of the school; or

(b) to make any other change which would have a significant effect on another grant-aided school,

it shall submit the proposal 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.

(2) 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 (1) as they apply in relation to a proposal under paragraph (2) of that Article; but the Department shall not approve any proposal under Article 14(7) of the principal Order as so applied if in the opinion of the Department the implementation of that proposal would render the school less likely to be attended by reasonable numbers of both Protestant and Roman Catholic pupils.