The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1993

Directions in respect of work carried out in contravention of this Part

14.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where—

(a) the Department has served a notice on a board under Article 13;

(b) the time specified in the notice has expired (whether or not the Department has received a written response to the notice); and

(c) it still appears to the Department that the board has acted as mentioned in the sub-paragraph concerned of Article 13(1).

(2) Without prejudice to Article 101 of the 1986 Order, the Department may direct that with effect from such date as is specified in the direction the board—

(a) shall not carry out any work falling within the appropriate activity;

(b) shall not carry out such work falling within that activity as is identified in the direction;

(c) may only carry out work falling within that activity if such conditions as are specified in the direction are fulfilled; or

(d) as regards such work falling within that activity as is identified in the direction, may only carry it out if such conditions as are specified in the direction are fulfilled.

(3) Where the Department has given a direction under paragraph (2) or this paragraph (the previous direction) the Department may give a direction (a new direction) that with effect from such date as is specified in the new direction—

(a) any prohibition applying by virtue of the previous direction (whether the prohibition applies outright or if conditions are not fulfilled) shall cease to apply;

(b) any outright prohibition applying by virtue of the previous direction is replaced by a prohibition applying (as regards the same work) if conditions specified in the new direction are not fulfilled; or

(c) any prohibition applying as regards work by virtue of the previous direction (whether the prohibition applies outright or if conditions are not fulfilled) is replaced by a prohibition which applies only to such of that work as is identified in the new direction but which is otherwise in the same terms as the prohibition in the previous direction.

(4) If the Department directs under this Article that a board shall not carry out work, or may only carry out work if certain conditions are fulfilled, the direction shall have effect notwithstanding any statutory provision under which the board is required or authorised to do the work or (as the case may be) to do it without the need for the conditions to be fulfilled.

(5) The conditions that may be imposed by a direction given under this Article in relation to the carrying out of any work include a condition restricting the carrying out of the work to cases where—

(a) the Department has been satisfied as to any matter specified or described in the direction; or

(b) the work is carried out under and in accordance with an authorisation or consent given for the purposes of the direction by the Department.

(6) Where a direction under this Article imposes any condition in relation to the carrying out of any work, that direction may provide that the requirement that the condition is fulfilled is to have effect, in relation to that work, instead of any requirement which (apart from the direction) would have effect in relation to that work by virtue of this Part.

(7) Without prejudice to paragraph (3), the power to give a direction under this Article shall include power, at any time, to make such variations of a direction under this Article as may be agreed with the board to which the direction relates.

(8) In this Article “the appropriate activity” means the defined activity within which the work identified in the notice concerned falls.