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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-9/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1986/594",
  "legislation_title": "The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "An arrangement for transferring a school to the Department under Article 17 may, subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, be made by the trustees who, in making such an arrangement, may act by resolution or otherwise as follows—\n(a) where the trust deed provides any manner in which or any assent with which a resolution or act binding the trustees is to be passed or done, then in accordance with the provisions of the trust deed;\n(b) where the trust deed contains no such provision—\n(i) then in the manner and with the assent, if any, in and with which it may be shown to the Department to have been usual for a resolution or act binding the trustees to be passed or done; or\n(ii) if no manner or assent can be shown to have been usual, then by a resolution passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds of those members of their body who are present at a meeting of the body summoned for the purpose and vote on the question and with the assent of any other person whose assent under the circumstances appears to the Department to be requisite.",
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  "version": "current",
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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."
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