{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110800419",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-education-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "General duty in respect to the curriculum",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of the Board of Governors and principal of every grant-aided school to exercise their functions as respects that school (including, in particular, the functions conferred on them by this Part) with a view to securing that the curriculum for the school satisfies the requirements of this Article.\n(2) The curriculum for a grant-aided school satisfies the requirements of this Article if it is a balanced and broadly based curriculum which–\n(a) promotes the spiritual, emotional, moral, cultural, intellectual and physical development of pupils at the school and thereby of society; and\n(b) prepares such pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life by equipping them with appropriate knowledge, understanding and skills.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110800419/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:00.725614+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."
}