{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-41",
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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/41",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Chapter",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“the Council” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 34(1);\n“employing authority” means—\n(a) in relation to teachers employed in a controlled school, the board by which they are employed;\n(b) in relation to teachers employed in a Catholic maintained school, the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools;\n(c) in relation to teachers employed in any other voluntary school or in a grant-maintained integrated school, the Board of Governors of the school;\n(d) in relation to peripatetic teachers, the board by which they are employed;\n“the register” has the meaning assigned by Article 35(1);\n“teachers” and “teaching” shall be construed in accordance with Article 34(3).",
  "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/41",
    "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."
}