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  "title": "Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
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  "long_title": "In this Order—Part II contains provisions about discipline in grant-aided schools;Part III contains provisions relating to the baseline assessment of pupils in their first year of compulsory education and the assessment and performance of other pupils;Part IV contains provisions relating to the performance and management of schools;Part V contains provisions concerning the provision and funding of pre-school education and the admission of children to such education;Part VI contains provisions relating to the establishment and functions of the General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland and to the employment of teachers;Part VII re-enacts existing provisions relating to the financing of schools with amendments which transfer responsibility for the funding of voluntary grammar schools and grant-maintained integrated schools from the Department to boards;Part VIII re-enacts existing provisions concerning the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment and confers certain new functions on that Council;Part IX contains miscellaneous provisions relating to education.",
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