Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

Interpretation of this Chapter

41.  In this Chapter—

• “the Council” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 34(1);

• “employing authority” means—

  (a)

  in relation to teachers employed in a controlled school, the board by which they are employed;

  (b)

  in relation to teachers employed in a Catholic maintained school, the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools;

  (c)

  in relation to teachers employed in any other voluntary school or in a grant-maintained integrated school, the Board of Governors of the school;

  (d)

  in relation to peripatetic teachers, the board by which they are employed;

  • “the register” has the meaning assigned by Article 35(1);

  • “teachers” and “teaching” shall be construed in accordance with Article 34(3).