The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Miscellaneous N.I.

Procedures for carrying out by certain bodies of their activities N.I.

150.—(1) Each board shall, at such intervals and in accordance with such arrangements as may be determined by the Department after consultation with [F1 the Authority] , review its procedures for the carrying out of such activities as the Department may direct with a view to ensuring that such activities are carried out as effectively, efficiently and economically as practicable.

(2) The Department may direct that paragraph (1) shall apply to any of the bodies or persons listed in Article 101(3)(b) to (h) of the principal Order as it applies to [F1 the Authority] but with the substitution for the reference to consultation with [F1 the Authority] of a reference to consultation with the bodies or persons concerned.

Paras.(3), (4) rep. by 1993 NI 12

(5) References in this Article to the carrying out of activities include references to the provision of services.

F1 Words in Order substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3), Sch. 3 para. 1(2)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

Review of performance of teachers N.I.

151 .F2 —(1) The Department may by regulations make provision requiring employing authorities to secure that the performance of teachers to whom the regulations apply—

(a) in discharging their duties; and

(b) in engaging in other activities connected with the establishments at which they are employed,

is regularly reviewed in accordance with such requirements as may be prescribed.

(2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision—

(a) requiring the Boards of Governors of controlled schools and Catholic maintained schools and the governing bodies of institutions of further education—

(i) to secure that any arrangements made in accordance with the regulations are complied with in relation to their establishments;

(ii) to provide such assistance to the employing authority as that authority may reasonably require in connection with its obligations under the regulations;

(b) with respect to the disclosure to teachers of the results of reviews and the provision of opportunities for them to make representations with respect to those results; and

(c) requiring employing authorities to have regard to the results of reviews in the exercise of such of their functions as may be prescribed.

(3) The regulations may be expressed to apply to any of the following categories of teacher, that is to say—

(a) teachers employed in grant‐aided schools;

(b) teachers employed in institutions of further education;

Sub-para. (c) rep. by 1993 NI 12

(d) peripatetic teachers.

(4) Before making any regulations under paragraph (1), the Department shall consult—

[F3 (a) the General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland; and]

(b) any other person with whom consultation appears to it to be desirable.

(5) In this Article “employing authority” means—

(a) in relation to teachers employed in controlled schoolsF4 . . . , [F1 the Authority] F5 ...;

(b) in relation to teachersF6 . . . employed by the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools, that Council;

(c) in relation to teachers employed in a voluntary school (other than a Catholic maintained school), the managers of that school;

(d) in relation to teachers employed in a grant‐maintained integrated school, the Board of Governors of the school;

(e) in relation to peripatetic teachers, [F1 the Authority] F7 ...;

[F8 (f) in relation to teachers employed in an institution of further education, the governing body of that institution.]

F1 Words in Order substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3), Sch. 3 para. 1(2)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

F2 certain functions transf. by SR 1999/481

F3 1998 NI 13

F4 1997 NI 15

F5 Words in art. 151(5)(a) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

F6 1993 NI 12

F7 Words in art. 151(5)(e) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

F8 1997 NI 15

Educational projects by Department N.I.

152 .F9   The Department may carry out any project appearing to the Department to be associated with the provision of educational F10 . . . services or recreational, social, cultural, physical or youth service activities or services ancillary to education.

F9 certain functions transf. by SR 1999/481

F10 Words in art. 152 repealed (1.4.2009) by Libraries Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 8), ss. 10(2), 12(2), Sch. 4; S.R. 2009/123, art. 2(f)(g)

[F11 Appointment of teachers by [F1 the Authority] N.I.

153.— (1) Each board shall prepare, and may from time to time revise, a scheme providing for the procedures to be followed in relation to the appointment by [F1 the Authority] of—

(a) teachers to posts in controlled schools; and

(b) peripatetic teachers.]

[F12 (2) A scheme under paragraph (1) may provide—

(a) for any specified functions of the Authority under the scheme to be exercised by committees of the Authority (“teaching appointments committees”);

(b) for a teaching appointments committee to include persons who are not members of the Authority; and

(c) for a teaching appointments committee to exercise functions on behalf of, and in the name of, the Authority.

(3) Before preparing or revising a scheme under paragraph (1) the Authority shall consult the Board of Governors of every controlled school.

(4) A scheme prepared or revised under paragraph (1) does not come into force unless approved by the Department.

(5) It shall be the duty of the Authority to give effect to a scheme or revised scheme for the time being in force under paragraph (1).]

F1 Words in Order substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3), Sch. 3 para. 1(2)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

F11 1998 NI 13

F12 Art. 153(2)-(5) substituted for art. 153(2)-(4) (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 11(18) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)