{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-41.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1759",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/41",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Chapter",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“the Council” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 34(1);\n“employing authority” means—\n(a)in relation to teachers employed in a controlled school, the Authority ...;\n(b)in relation to teachers employed in a Catholic maintained school, the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools;\n(c)in relation to teachers employed in any other voluntary school or in a grant-maintained integrated school, the Board of Governors of the school;\n(d)in relation to peripatetic teachers, the Authority ...;\n“the register” has the meaning assigned by Article 35(1);\n“teachers” and “teaching” shall be construed in accordance with Article 34(3).",
  "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      "text": "Words in art. 41 in the definition of \"employing authority\" in paragraph (a) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"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": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 41 in the definition of \"employing authority\" in paragraph (d) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"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/1998/1759/article/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:56.605905+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."
}