The Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

5.—(1) Where representations are made to a board under paragraph 4(1)(a), the board shall not make the statement until it has considered the representations and the period or the last of the periods allowed by paragraph 4 for making requirements or further representations has expired.

(2) The statement may be in the form originally proposed (except as to the matters required to be excluded from the copy of the proposed statement) or in a form modified in the light of the representations.

(3) Regulations may provide that, where a board is under a duty (subject to compliance with the preceding requirements of this Schedule) to make a statement, the duty, or any step required to be taken for performance of the duty, must, subject to prescribed exceptions, be performed within the prescribed period.

(4) Such provision shall not relieve the board of the duty to make a statement, or take any step, which has not been performed or taken within that period.