The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1993

PART I INTRODUCTORY

Title and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1993.

(2) Except as provided by paragraphs (3) and (4), this Order shall come into operation on the expiration of two months from the day on which it is made.

(3) The following provisions of this Order shall come into operation forthwith—

• This Part;

• Article 28 and Schedule 2;

• Article 42;

• Article 48;

• Article 50(1) and Part II of Schedule 4 so far as relating to—

  • the definition of “maintained school” in Article 2(2) of the 1986 Order and Articles 9(1), 15(3), 16(4) and 106(2) of, and Schedules 4, 7 and 8 to, that Order;

• Articles 60(1), 126(4) and 127(2) and (3) of the 1989 Order;

• Article 50(2) and Schedule 5 so far as relating to—

• Article 70(1) and (3) of, and Schedule 19 to, the 1986 Order;

• Articles 141(5) and 146(5) and (6) of the 1989 Order and the amendments in Schedule 9 to the 1989 Order to Articles 11 and 116(1) of, and Schedules 5 and 6 to, the 1986 Order.

(4) The following provisions of this Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Department may by order appoint—

• Articles 26 and 27;

• Article 34 and Part I of Schedule 4;

• Article 41;

• Article 45;

• Article 50(2) and Schedule 5 so far as relating to—

• Articles 2(2), 65, 69A, 70(4) and 72 of the 1986 Order;

• Articles 18, 20, 23 to 28, 59, 143, 151, 153, 163 and 164 of, and Schedules 2 and 3 to, the 1989 Order and the amendment in Schedule 9 to the 1989 Order to the definition of “supply teacher” in Article 2(2) of the 1986 Order.

(5) An order under paragraph (4) may make such transitional provision as appears to the Department to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into operation by the order.

Interpretation

2.—(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(2) In this Order—

“the 1986 Order” means the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(2);

“the 1989 Order” means the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(3).

(3) This Order shall be construed as one with the 1986 Order and the 1989 Order; and accordingly Article 2(2) of the 1986 Order, in so far as it relates to the definition of words or expressions used in that Order and in this Order, shall apply for the purposes of this Order as it applies for the purposes of that Order.

(1)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)

(2)

1986 NI 3

(3)

1989 NI 20