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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Duties with respect to the curriculum",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of the Board of Governors and principal of every grant‐aided school to exercise their functions as respects that school (including, in particular, the functions conferred on them by this Part) with a view to securing that the curriculum for the school satisfies the requirements of this Article.\n(2) The curriculum for a grant‐aided school satisfies the requirements of this Article if it is a balanced and broadly based curriculum which—\n(a) promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, intellectual and physical development of pupils at the school and thereby of society; and\n(b) prepares such pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2406/article/4",
    "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."
}