{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-65.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/65",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Employment of teachers by the Authority",
  "text": "(1) A board may employ all such teachers as are required in schools. . . under its management and may, with the approval of the Department, employ teachers otherwise than on the staff of a particular school. . . .\n(2) A teacher employed under paragraph (1) otherwise than on the staff of a particular school. . . shall be—\n(a) a teacher (to be called a “peripatetic teacher”) employed by the Authority to teach a particular subject or group of subjects in a number of schools. . . or otherwise than in a school. . . or a teacher employed by the Authority for the purpose of making special educational provision whether in a school or otherwise;. . .\nSub‐para. (b) rep. by 1993 NI 12\n(3) The number of peripatetic teachers employed by the Authority and the purposes for which they are employed shall be in accordance with arrangements made by the Authority and approved by the Department and the Authority shall not employ such teachers otherwise than in accordance with arrangements so made and approved.\n(4) Peripatetic. . . teachers employed by the Authority may, with the approval of the Authority , work in a voluntary school or a grant=maintained integrated school if so requested by the managers of that school.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1997 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1993 NI 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1989 NI 20"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/594/article/65",
    "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."
}