{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-68.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/68",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Schools eligible for grant‐maintained integrated status",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), any controlled, voluntary or independent school is for the purposes of this Chapter eligible for grant‐maintained integrated status.\n(2) The following are not eligible for grant‐maintained integrated status, namely—\nSub-para. (a) rep. by 1998 NI 13\n(b) a special school;\nSub-para. (c) rep. by 1993 NI 12\n(d) a school established in a hospital.\n(3) A controlled or voluntary school is not eligible for grant‐maintained integrated status if a proposal to discontinue the school has been approved by the Department under Article 14(7) of the principal Order.\n(4) A voluntary school is not eligible for grant‐maintained integrated status if notice of the trustees' intention to discontinue the school has been given under Article 16(1) of the principal Order and has not been withdrawn.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1993 NI 12"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2406/article/68",
    "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."
}