{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/594",
  "legislation_title": "The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Management of voluntary schools",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), each voluntary school shall be under the control and management of a Board of Governors.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), each maintained school shall be under the control and management of a Board of Governors constituted in accordance with the provisions of Part I of Schedule 5. . . .\n(3) Two or more maintained primary schools, other than nursery schools, may be grouped under one Board of Governors where the trustees or Board of Governors of each school so requests and—\n(a) in the case of Catholic maintained schools, the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools, with the approval of the Department, so determines; and\n(b) in the case of other maintained schools, the Authority , with the approval of the Department, so determines.\n(4) Each voluntary grammar school in relation to which an agreement under paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 is in force shall be under the control and management of a Board of Governors constituted in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 6.\n(5) Each voluntary grammar school in relation to which no agreement under paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 is in force shall be under the control and management of a Board of Governors constituted in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 7.\nPara. (6) rep. by 1996 NI 1",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1993 NI 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1996 NI 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3), Sch. 3 para. 1(2)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/594/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:39.616919+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."
}