The Education (Modification of Statutory Provisions Relating to Employment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1991

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

(a) “the 1989 Order” means the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989;

“Board of Governors” means the Board of Governors for the time being of a controlled or maintained school and references to a board in relation to Boards of Governors are references to the board responsible for the management of the school if the school is a controlled school or the board by which the school is maintained if the school is a maintained school; and

“governing body” means the governing body for the time being of an institution of further education (including any technical secondary school conducted in association with the institution) and references to a board in relation to governing bodies are references to the board for the area in which the institution of further education is situated;

(b) references to employment powers are references, in the case of Boards of Governors, to the powers as to the determination of staff complements, discipline, suspension and dismissal of staff conferred by or under Article 58 of, and Schedule 4 to, the 1989 Order and, in the case of governing bodies, to the powers in relation to staff conferred by or under Articles 114 and 115 of that Order;

(c) references to Boards of Governors with delegated budgets are references to Boards of Governors to which powers as to the expenditure of the budget share of the school for which they are responsible are for the time being delegated by virtue of Articles 50 and 52 of the 1989 Order; and

(d) references to governing bodies with delegated budgets are references to governing bodies to which powers as to the expenditure of the budget share of the institution for which they are responsible are for the time being delegated by virtue of Article 109 of the 1989 Order.