{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-9A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-9A.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/9A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9A",
  "heading": "Schemes of management",
  "text": "(1) For every grant‐aided school. . . there shall be a scheme (to be known as a “scheme of management”) providing for—\n(a) the membership and procedure of the Board of Governors of the school;\n(b) the management of the school, and in particular the functions to be exercised in relation to the school by the Board of Governors, the principal and any other person or body specified in the scheme;\n(c) such other matters as are required or authorised by the Education Orders to be included in or regulated by the scheme of management.\n(2) The scheme of management for a grant‐aided school may provide for the establishment by the Board of Governors of the school of committees (whether or not including persons who are not members of the Board of Governors) and for—\n(a) the membership and procedure of such committees;\n(b) the delegation to such committees of such functions of the Board of Governors of the school as may be specied in or determined in accordance with the scheme.\n(3) The scheme of management for a grant‐aided school may provide for the delegation to the principal of the school of such functions of the Board of Governors as may be specified in or determined in accordance with the scheme.\n(4) The scheme of management for a grant‐aided school shall—\n(a) contain no provision which is inconsistent with any provision of the Education Orders or any other statutory provision;\n(b) except in so far as any provision of the Education Orders requires or authorises, comply with any instrument of government of the school.\n(5) The scheme of management for—\n(a) a controlled integrated school, shall be a scheme applying only to that school;\n(b) any other controlled school, may be either a scheme applying only to that school or a scheme applying to that school and to other controlled schools, all being schools specified, or of a description specified, in the scheme.\n(6) The scheme of management for a Catholic maintained school may be a scheme applying only to that school or a scheme applying to that school and to other Catholic maintained schools, all being schools specified, or of a description specified, in the scheme.\nPara. (7) rep. by 1993 NI 12",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1989 NI 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1997 NI 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/594/article/9A",
    "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."
}