{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1989/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1989/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/10",
  "legislation_title": "Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1989",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Review of expected leaving dates from full-time education of disabled persons.",
  "text": "(1) The Authority shall for the purposes of section 5 keep under review the dates when the following children are expected to cease to receive full-time education at school or (as the case may be) at an institution of further education, namely—\n(a) children ... in the case of each of whom an opinion has been given in pursuance of subsection (1) or (2) of section 5 that he is a disabled person ...; and\n(b) children at institutions of further education ... in the case of each of whom any such opinion has been given as mentioned in paragraph (a).\n(2) Subsection (9) of section 5 shall have effect for the purposes of this section as it has effect for the purposes of that section.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1) substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 10(7) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(a) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(b) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/10/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:54.556729+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}