The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Further and higher education funding schemes: provision for financial delegation

111.—(1) A scheme shall include provision for requiring, in the case of each institution of further education covered by the scheme in any financial year, the delegation by the board concerned to the governing body of the institution of the management of the institution’s budget share for that year.

(2) References in this Part to the delegation requirement under any scheme are references to any provision included in the scheme by virtue of paragraph (1).

(3) Where a new institution of further education is established, the delegation requirement under the scheme covering that institution shall not apply in relation to that institution until such date as may be specified in the scheme in relation to that institution.

(4) Any delegation by a board under a scheme to the governing body of any institution of the management of the institution’s budget share for any financial year shall be subject to such conditions as may be imposed by or under the scheme.

(5) Conditions so imposed may (in particular) relate to the application of the whole of the budget share of any institution or of any part of the budget share of any institution determined by or under the scheme, and different conditions may be imposed in relation to any parts so determined.

(6) In imposing conditions under a scheme a board shall take into account any guidance given by the Department as to the conditions it regards as appropriate for imposition under a scheme.

(7) The Department shall publish any guidance given by it under paragraph (6) in such manner as it thinks fit.