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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-northern-ireland-order-1989/schedule-8/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1989/2406",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
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  "number": "8",
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  "text": "(1) The proceedings of the Council shall not be invalidated by any vacancy among its members or by any defect in the appointment or qualification of any of its members.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of sub‐paragraph (1), the Council shall be regarded as fully constituted notwithstanding that parents and assistant teachers to be appointed to the Council by the Council have not yet been appointed.",
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