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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/schedule-8/paragraph-7",
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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": "schedule/8/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person shall be disqualified for being a member of the Council if—\n(a) he is employed by the Council, otherwise than as a teacher;\n(b) he has been adjudged bankrupt or has made a composition with his creditors;\n(c) he has, within the last five years immediately preceding the day of his appointment or at any time thereafter, been convicted by a court in Northern Ireland or elsewhere in the British Islands of any offence and ordered to be imprisoned for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine.\n(2) A person appointed to the Council by the Council from amongst parents or assistant teachers elected under paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 5 to the principal Order to the Boards of Governors of Catholic maintained schools shall if he ceases to hold office as a member of the Board of Governors of a Catholic maintained school cease to be a member of the Council.\n(3) Where a member of the Council becomes disqualified under sub‐paragraph (1) or is absent from meetings of the Council for more than 6 months consecutively, or a person ceases to be a member of the Council under sub‐paragraph (2), the Council shall forthwith declare his office vacant.\n(4) Attendance as a member of the Council at any meeting of a committee of the Council shall for the purposes of sub‐paragraph (3) be regarded as an attendance at a meeting of the Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1993 NI 12"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2406/schedule/8/paragraph/7",
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  "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."
}