{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2003/0110443063",
  "legislation_title": "The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Admission to special schools of children resident outside Northern Ireland",
  "text": "(1) A board may make arrangements for the admission to a special school in its area of a child who is resident outside Northern Ireland and has special educational needs.\n(2) Arrangements made in respect of a child under this Article shall not be for a period of more than one school year at a time; but further arrangements may be made under this Article for a subsequent school year in respect of the same child and the same special school.\n(3) A board may only enter into arrangements under this Article in respect of a special school and a school year (or a part thereof) if the board is of the opinion that doing so will not, in the school year in question, prevent the admission to the school of a child resident in Northern Ireland.\n(4) Articles 128 to 131 of the 1989 Order (which restrict the charges which can be made in respect of pupils at a grant-aided school) shall not apply to a special school in relation to a pupil admitted to the school in accordance with arrangements under this Article; and accordingly in Article 127 of the 1989 Order after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted—\n“(4A) Those Articles do not apply to a special school in relation to a pupil admitted to the school in accordance with arrangements under Article 22 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.”.\n(5) A board may, in respect of a pupil admitted to a special school in accordance with arrangements under this Article, make such charges as it may determine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2003/0110443063/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:25:41.994094+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."
}