{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-42.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/42",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Direction to admit child to specified school",
  "text": "(1) A board may give a direction under this Article if, in the case of any child ..., one or both of the following conditions is satisfied in relation to each school which is a reasonable distance from his home and provides suitable education, that is—\n(a) he has been refused admission to the school; or\n(b) he has been expelled from the school.\n(2) A direction given under this Article by the Authority shall specify a grant-aided school—\n(a) which is a reasonable distance from the child's home, and\n(b) from which the child has not been expelled.\n(3) Where a grant-aided school is specified in a direction under this Article, the Board of Governors shall admit the child to the school.\n(4) Paragraph (3) does not affect any power to suspend or expel from a school a pupil who is already a registered pupil there.\n(5) Before giving a direction under this Article, the Authority shall consult—\n(a) the parent of the child,\n(b) the Board of Governors of the school it proposes to specify in the direction,\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) if that school is a Catholic maintained school, the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools.\n(6) Where the Authority gives a direction under this Article specifying a school, it shall give notice in writing of that fact to the Board of Governors of the school.\n(7) In this Article—\n“school” does not include a special school;\n“suitable education”, in relation to a child, means efficient full-time education suitable to his age, ability and aptitude and to any special educational needs he may have.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 42(1) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 42(5)(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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/274/article/42",
    "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."
}