The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Management of grant-maintained integrated schools

Management of grant-maintained integrated schools

66.—(1) Each grant-maintained integrated school shall be under the control and management of a Board of Governors constituted in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 5.

(2) The scheme of management for a grant-maintained integrated school shall require the Board of Governors to use its best endeavours, in exercising its functions under the Education Orders, to ensure that the management, control and ethos of the school are such as are likely to attract to the school reasonable numbers of both Protestant and Roman Catholic pupils.

Powers of Board of Governors

67.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Article and to any provision of the scheme of management for the school, section 19 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to the Board of Governors of a grant-maintained integrated school.

(2) Subject as aforesaid, the Board of Governors of such a school shall have power to do anything which appears to it to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of or in connection with the management and control of the school, including in particular power to assume the management and control, as from the incorporation date in relation to the school, of the school as constituted immediately before that date, to manage and control the school as a school of the same category (that is to say primary, grammar or secondary, other than grammar) as the school immediately before it became a grant-maintained integrated school, and for those purposes to receive any property, rights and liabilities transferred to it under Article 75.

(3) The power of the Board of Governors under section 19(1)(a)(iv) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954—

(a) does not include power to grant any mortgage, charge or other security in respect of any land; and

(b) in so far as it relates to the disposal of land, may only be exercised with the written consent of the Department.

(4) The Board of Governors of a grant-maintained integrated school shall have power to pay its members such travelling, subsistence and other allowances as may be determined by the Board of Governors and approved by the Department.

(5) The application of the seal of the Board of Governors of a grant-maintained integrated school shall be authenticated by the signature of the chairman of the Board of Governors or of some other member authorised either generally or specially by the Board of Governors to act for that purpose together with that of any other member.

(1)

1965 c. 19 (N.I.)