PART VIINTEGRATED EDUCATION

CHAPTER IGENERAL FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT AND BOARDS

General functions of Department and boards in relation to integrated education64

1

It shall be the duty of the Department to encourage and facilitate the development of integrated education, that is to say the education together at school of Protestant and Roman Catholic pupils.

2

The Department may, subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, pay grants to any body appearing to the Department to have as an objective the encouragement or promotion of integrated education.

3

It shall be the duty of a board to provide free of charge to any person seeking it advice and information about—

a

the procedures for acquisition by a school of controlled integrated status;

b

the implications for a school of the acquisition of that status.