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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1989/2406",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.\n(2) Except as provided by paragraph (3), this Order shall come into operation on the expiration of two months from the date on which it is made.\n(3) The following provisions of this Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Department may by order appoint\nArticle 5(1)(b), (2), (4) and (5);\nArticle 6 and Schedule 2;\nArticle 8(1);\nArticle 9;\nArticle 11(1)(b) to (e) and (2);\nArticles 18 to 28 and Schedule 3;\nArticle 34;\nPart IV;\nArticle 54;\nArticle 56;\nArticle 57;\nArticles 59 to 62;\nArticle 77(2) to (6);\nArticle 78;\nArticles 102 to 104;\nArticle 113;\nArticle 119;\nArticles 127 to 138;\nPart IX and Schedule 8;\nArticle 156;\nArticle 159;\nArticle 166 and Schedule 9 so far as relating to—\nThe Commissioner for Complaints Act (Northern Ireland) 1969;\nThe Industrial Relations (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1976;\nThe following provisions of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, namely, the definition of “grammar school” in Article 2(2) and Articles 4, 8(2), 10(5), 11(1), 33, 65, 69, 72, 79(2), 88(6), 103(1) and 116(1);\nArticle 167 and Schedule 10 so far as relating to—\nThe Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968;\nThe following provisions of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, namely, the definition of “intermediate school” in Article 2(2) and Articles 4, 8(1)(b) and (c), 24 to 26, 28, 56(1) and (4) to (6), 57(1), 68, 103(1), 117, Part IX, Schedule 2, paragraph 4 of Schedule 3, Schedule 14 and Schedule 17;\nThe Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1987.\n(4) An order under paragraph (3) may—\n(a) make such transitional provision as appears to the Department to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into operation by the order;\n(b) include such adaptations of the provisions which it brings into operation, or of any other provision of this Order then in operation, as appears to the Department necessary or expedient for the purpose or in consequence of the operation of any provision of this Order (including in particular, the provisions which the order brings into operation) before the coming into operation of any other provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "partly exercised by SR 1990/125, 249; 1991/109, 391; 1992/169; 1994/295 (C.9), 296 (C.10); 1995/204 (C.2); 1997/188 (C.9); 1998/119 (C.5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1969 c. 25 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1976 NI 28"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1986 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "1968 c. 34 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "1987 NI 2"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:01.907218+00:00"
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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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