{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0337377170",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Responsibility of Board of Governors and principal for discipline",
  "text": "(1) The scheme of management for every grant-aided school shall provide for it to be the duty of the Board of Governors to ensure that policies designed to promote good behaviour and discipline on the part of its pupils are pursued at the school.\n(2) In particular the scheme of management shall require the Board of Governors—\n(a) after consulting the principal, to make, and from time to time review, a written statement of general principles to which the principal is to have regard in determining any measures under paragraph (3)(a); and\n(b) where it considers it desirable that any particular measures should be so determined by the principal or that he should have regard to any particular matters—\n(i) to notify him of those measures or matters; and\n(ii) to give him such guidance as it considers appropriate.\n(3) The scheme of management for every grant-aided school shall provide for it to be the duty of the principal—\n(a) to determine measures (which may include the making of rules and provision for enforcing them) to be taken with a view to—\n(i) promoting, among pupils, self-discipline and proper regard for authority;\n(ii) encouraging good behaviour and respect for others on the part of pupils;\n(iii) securing that the standard of behaviour of pupils is acceptable; and\n(iv) otherwise regulating the conduct of pupils;\n(b) in determining such measures—\n(i) to act in accordance with the current statement made by the Board of Governors under paragraph (2)(a); and\n(ii) to have regard to any notification or guidance given to him under paragraph (2)(b);\n(c) to prepare a written statement of such measures and to secure that—\n(i) a copy of that statement is given (free of charge) to the parents of all registered pupils at the school; and\n(ii) copies of the statement are available for inspection (at all reasonable times and free of charge) at the school.\n(4) The scheme of management for every grant-aided school shall provide for the standard of behaviour which is to be regarded as acceptable at the school to be determined by the principal so far as it is not determined by the Board of Governors.\n(5) This Article does not apply to a school established in a hospital.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0337377170/article/3",
    "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."
}