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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-unrecognised-degrees-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-5",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1988/1989",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Unrecognised Degrees) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-unrecognised-degrees-northern-ireland-order-1988",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Identification of bodies granting or providing courses for recognised awards",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Order, any body for the time being designated by order made by the Department as appearing to it to be a recognised body shall be conclusively presumed to be such a body.\n(2) The Department shall compile, maintain and publish by order a list including the name of every body which appears to it to fall for the time being within paragraph (3).\n(3) A body falls within this paragraph if it is not a recognised body and either—\n(a) provides any course which is in preparation for a degree to be granted by a recognised body and which is approved by or on behalf of the recognised body; or\n(b) is a constituent college, school or hall or other institution of a university which is a recognised body.\n(4) In this Article “recognised body” means a body falling within Article 3(2)( a ) or ( b ).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1988/1989/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:31.243860+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."
}