Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1989

6 Review of expected leaving dates from full-time education of disabled persons.N.I.

(1)An education and library board shall for the purposes of section 5 keep under review the dates when the following children are expected to cease to receive full-time education at school or (as the case may be) at an institution of further education, namely—

(a)children for whom that education and library board is responsible for the purposes of the Education Order and in the case of each of whom an opinion has been given in pursuance of subsection (1) or (2) of section 5 that he is a disabled person (whether it was given to that education and library board or not); and

(b)children at institutions of further education for whom that education and library board was so responsible immediately before they ceased to receive full-time education at school and in the case of each of whom any such opinion has been given as mentioned in paragraph (a).

(2)Subsection (9) of section 5 shall have effect for the purposes of this section as it has effect for the purposes of that section.