{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1996/274",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "General duty of board towards children for whom it is responsible",
  "text": "(1) A board shall exercise its powers with a view to securing that, of the children for whom it is responsible, it identifies those to whom paragraph (2) applies.\n(2) This paragraph applies to a child if—\n(a) he has special educational needs, and\n(b) it is necessary for the Authority to determine the special educational provision which any learning difficulty he may have calls for.\n(3) For the purposes of this Part the Authority is responsible for a child if ...—\n(a) he is a registered pupil at a grant-aided school, or\n(b) he has attained the age of two years, is not over compulsory school age and has been brought to the attention of the Authority as having, or probably having, special educational needs.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "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      "text": "Words in art. 13(3) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"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": "Arts. 6-21B: power to disapply or modify conferred (temp.) (25.3.2020) by Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 87(1), Sch. 17 para. 17 (with ss. 88-90)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Arts. 6-21B expiry of earlier affecting provision 2020 c. 7, Sch. 16 para. 17 (25.3.2022) by Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 89 (with s. 90)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/274/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:42:29.330479+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."
}