{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-4/paragraph-3.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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) There shall be 9, 16 or 24 voting members appointed to the Board of Governors of a controlled secondary school, other than a controlled grammar or integrated school. . .\n(2) Subject to paragraph 6, where there are 9 voting members appointed to such a Board of Governors, then of those members—\n(a) four shall be nominated by the relevant members of the Boards of Governors of contributory schools from amongst the relevant members of those Boards of Governors;\n(b) two shall be elected by parents of registered pupils at the school from amongst parents of such pupils;\n(c) two shall be chosen by the Authority ....;\n(d) one shall be elected by assistant teacher at the school from amongst such assistant teachers.\n(2A) In sub‐paragraph (2)(a) “relevant members”, in relation to a Board of Governors, means the members nominated by transferors and superseded managers under paragraph 2(2)(a) or 5(1)(c).\n(3) Where there are 16 or 24 voting members appointed to such a Board of Governors, sub-paragraph (2) shall apply as if for the numbers mentioned in heads (a), (b), (c) and (d) of that sub-paragraph there were substituted the fractions three-eighths, one-quarter, one-quarter and one-eighth respectively.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1997 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1997 NI 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 3(2)(b) substituted (23.3.2007) by Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1915 (N.I. 11)), arts. 1(4)(c), 44(1), Sch. 2 para. 27(a); S.R. 2007/197, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "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": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 3(2)(c) 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": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "1989 NI 20"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/594/schedule/4/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}