{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-153",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-153.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/153",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "153",
  "heading": "Appointment of teachers by the Authority",
  "text": "(1) Each board shall prepare, and may from time to time revise, a scheme providing for the procedures to be followed in relation to the appointment by the Authority of—\n(a) teachers to posts in controlled schools; and\n(b) peripatetic teachers.\n(2) A scheme under paragraph (1) may provide—\n(a) for any specified functions of the Authority under the scheme to be exercised by committees of the Authority (“teaching appointments committees”);\n(b) for a teaching appointments committee to include persons who are not members of the Authority; and\n(c) for a teaching appointments committee to exercise functions on behalf of, and in the name of, the Authority.\n(3) Before preparing or revising a scheme under paragraph (1) the Authority shall consult the Board of Governors of every controlled school.\n(4) A scheme prepared or revised under paragraph (1) does not come into force unless approved by the Department.\n(5) It shall be the duty of the Authority to give effect to a scheme or revised scheme for the time being in force under paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1998 NI 13"
    },
    {
      "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. 153(2)-(5) substituted for art. 153(2)-(4) (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 11(18) (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/153",
    "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."
}