{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-131",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-131.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/131",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "131",
  "heading": "Evidence of documents",
  "text": "In any legal proceedings, a document purporting to be—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) an extract from the minutes of the proceedings at any meeting of the Board of Governors of a grant‐aided school and to be signed by the chairman or secretary of the Board of Governors;\n(c) a certificate giving particulars of the attendance of a child at a school and to be signed by the principal of the school; or\n(d) a certificate issued by a medical officer and to be signed by such an officer;\nshall be received in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be the document which it purports to be, and to be signed by the person by whom it purports to have been signed without proof of his identity, signature or official capacity, and such extract or certificate as is mentioned in paragraph (b), (c) or (d) shall be evidence of the matters stated therein.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 131(a) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1987 NI 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/594/article/131",
    "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."
}