The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Miscellaneous functions of the Council under the principal OrderN.I.

146.—(1) The principal Order shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in the following provisions of this Article, being amendments to confer on the Council certain functions under that Order or amendments otherwise consequential on the establishment of the Council.

  • Para. (2) rep. by 1996 NI 1

  • Para. (3) rep. by 1993 NI 12

(4) For Article 100 there shall be substituted the following Article—

Determination of disputes

100.  Any dispute arising between—

(a)a board and the trustees or managers of a voluntary school;

(b)a board and the Board of Governors of a grant‐maintained integrated school;

(c)a board and the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools; or

(d)the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools and the trustees or managers of a Catholic maintained school,

with respect to the exercise of any power conferred or the performance of any duty imposed by or under the Education Orders may, notwithstanding any enactment rendering the exercise of the power or the performance of the duty contingent on the opinion of one of the parties to the dispute, be referred by either party to the dispute to the Department and any dispute so referred shall be determined by the Department whose determination shall be final..

Paras.(5), (6) rep. by 1993 NI 12

(7) A scheme of management in force in relation to a school immediately before it becomes a Catholic maintained school shall continue in force until replaced by a scheme prepared under Article 9B(3) of[F1 the principal Order].