{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-135",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-135.json",
  "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/135",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "135",
  "heading": "Charges for board and lodging at boarding schools",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Article where any registered pupil at any grant‐aided school is provided at the school with board and lodging at the expense of the Authority or the Board of Governors of the school, charges shall be payable in respect of the board and lodging by the parent of the pupil concerned to the Authority or the Board of Governors.\n(2) Where the Authority is satisfied with respect to any pupil ... that education suitable to his age, ability, aptitude and any special educational needs he may have cannot be provided for him otherwise than by the provision of board and lodging at a particular grant‐aided school, the Authority shall—\n(a) where the school is under its management, remit the whole of the charges payable under this Article; and\n(b) where the school is not under its management, pay to the Authority or Board of Governors to whom the charges are payable under this Article, the whole of those charges.\n(3) Where the Authority is satisfied that payment of the full charges payable under this Article would involve financial hardship to the parent of a pupil who is ordinarily resident in its area, the Authority —\n(a) in the case of charges payable to the Authority , shall remit so much of those charges as falls in accordance with paragraph (4) to be so remitted; and\n(b) in the case of charges payable ... to the Board of Governors of a school, shall pay so much of those charges as falls in accordance with that paragraph to be so paid.\n(4) In the case of any such charges, the amount that falls to be remitted or paid by the Authority by virtue of paragraph (3)(a) or (b) is—\n(a) such part of those charges as the Authority considers ought not to be paid by the pupil's parent in order to avoid such hardship as is mentioned in that paragraph; or\n(b) if in its opinion such hardship cannot otherwise be avoided, the whole of those charges.",
  "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. 135(1) substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 11(14) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 135(2) 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": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 135(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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2406/article/135",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:01.907218+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."
}