{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-56.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/56",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Review of suspension",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of the board concerned—\n(a) to review before the beginning of every financial year any suspension under Article 55 which is for the time being in force;\n(b) for the purposes of that review, to afford—\n(i) the Board of Governors of the school concerned;\n(ii) the principal of the school concerned; and\n(iii) where the school is a Catholic maintained school, the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools,\nan opportunity for making representations with respect to the suspension and to have regard to any representations made by the Board of Governors, the principal or that Council;\n(c) to revoke any such suspension where the board considers it appropriate to do so.\n(2) The board shall give—\n(a) the Board of Governors concerned;\n(b) the principal of the school concerned;\n(c) the Department; and\n(d) where that school is a Catholic maintained school, the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools,\nwritten notification of its decision on any such review.\n(3) The revocation of a suspension on a review under this Article shall take effect as from the beginning of the financial year next following the review.",
  "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/56",
    "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."
}