{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-140",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-140.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/140",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "140",
  "heading": "Community use of school premises",
  "text": "Subject to regulations—\n(a) the managers and Board of Governors of every controlled school;\n(b) the trustees and managers of every voluntary school and grant‐maintained integrated school,\nshall, in exercising their respective powers in relation to the school premises (including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing words, any powers under Article 72 of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 ), have regard to the desirability of the premises being made available (when not required by or in connection with the school) for use by members of the community served by the school.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1993 NI 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 140 substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 11(17) (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/140",
    "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."
}