{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-4/paragraph-1.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": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Board of Governors of one or more than one controlled school shall consist of—\n(a) such number of persons (in this Schedule referred to as “voting members”) as the Authority may, subject to paragraphs 2 to 5, determine;. . .\n(b) the principal of the school, or each of the schools, who, subject to sub-paragraph (2), shall be entitled to attend and take part in meetings of the Board of Governors but not to vote on any question.\n(c) persons co‐opted under Articles 122 and 139 of the 1989 Order who shall be entitled to attend and take part in meetings of the Board of Governors but not to vote on any question.\n(2) Where two or more schools are grouped under one Board of Governors, the principal of a school shall not be entitled to attend or take part in any meeting of the Board of Governors whenever a matter relating exclusively to one or more of the other schools is being discussed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "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": "F2",
      "text": "1989 NI 20"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/594/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
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  },
  "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."
}