The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Miscellaneous and supplementary

Variation of instrument of government relating to controlled integrated school

98.  Article 86 shall apply to a controlled integrated school as if for the words “grant-maintained integrated” wherever they occur there were substituted the words “controlled integrated”.

Interpretation (controlled integrated schools)

99.—(1) In this Chapter and in any other provision of this Part as applied by Article 91 or 98—

(a) references to the proposed date of implementation are references—

(i) in relation to any school in respect of which a proposal for acquisition of controlled integrated status is required to be submitted under Article 92(1), to the date specified in accordance with Article 70(4)(b) (as applied by Article 91) in the information given for the purposes of the originating ballot to persons eligible to vote in that ballot (within the meaning of Article 70 (as so applied)); and

(ii) in relation to any school in respect of which such a proposal has been submitted under Article 92(1), to the date specified in the proposal as the proposed date of implementation;

(b) references, in relation to any school in respect of which such a proposal has been approved, to the proposal are references to the proposal as approved;

(c) “relevant board” means—

(i) in relation to a controlled school, the board responsible for the management of the school;

(ii) in relation to a maintained school, the board by which the school is maintained;

(iii) in relation to a voluntary school, other than a maintained school, the board for the area in which the school is situated;

(iv) in relation to a proposal to establish a new controlled integrated school, the board for the area in which the school is proposed to be situated.

(2) In relation to any proposal for acquisition of controlled integrated status required to be submitted under Article 92(1) in respect of any school, the reference in paragraph (1)(a) to the originating ballot is a reference—

(a) where paragraph (1) of that Article applies, to the ballot by reference to which it applies; and

(b) where the proposal is required to be published by virtue of a requirement imposed by the Department under paragraph (8) of that Article, to the last ballot held in accordance with Article 70 (as applied by Article 91) in relation to the school before that requirement was imposed.