Regulation 9 Exemption from sections 19 to 21 of the Act for certain educational services

(1)

Sections 19 to 21 of the Act shall not apply to the following services (in so far as they do not fall within section 19(5)(a) of the Act)—

(a)

services provided by an education and library board in carrying out its functions under Article 37(1) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986^f1 or Article 100 of the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989^f2;

(b)

the provision by a voluntary organisation of social, cultural and recreational activities and facilities for physical education and training, where such activities are designed to promote the personal or educational development of persons taking part in them;

(c)

the provision of facilities for research (including the supervision of or guidance of research) at any relevant establishment;

(d)

the assessment at a relevant establishment—

(i)

of pupils or students in connection with education provided to them by the establishment or by another relevant establishment; or

(ii)

of pupils or students to whom education has not been provided by the establishment where the assessment is undertaken as part of an assessment referred to in head (i).

(2)

In this regulation “relevant establishment” means—

(a)

an establishment which is funded by a body mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 19(6) of the Act or by the Department of Education for Northern Ireland; or

(b)

an establishment referred to in section 19(5)(a)(ii) of the Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)
f2: S.I. 1989/2406 (N.I. 20)