{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0337377170",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "School development plans",
  "text": "(1) The scheme of management for each grant-aided school shall provide for it to be the duty of the Board of Governors of the school to prepare, and from time to time revise, a school development plan.\n(2) In preparing or revising a school development plan, the Board of Governors shall—\n(a) consult the principal of the school;\n(b) have regard to—\n(i) any guidance given by the Department, the board for the area in which the school is situated and (in the case of a Catholic maintained school) the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools; and\n(ii) the findings of any inspection of the school under Article 102 of the principal Order.\n(3) Regulations shall—\n(a) prescribe the matters to be dealt with by a school development plan;\n(b) prescribe the period for which a plan is to have effect;\n(c) prescribe the manner in which a plan is to be published;\n(d) provide for the revision of a plan.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0337377170/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:18:48.428621+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."
}