{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/integrated-education-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-4",
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  "legislation": "nia/2022/15",
  "legislation_title": "Integrated Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/integrated-education-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Support etc. for integrated education",
  "text": "(1) In Article 64(1) of the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (Department’s duties in respect of integrated education) for “to encourage and facilitate” substitute “to encourage, facilitate and support”.\n(2) In section 2 of the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (functions of Education Authority) after subsection (3) (Authority’s duties in respect of shared education) insert—\n“(3A) It is a duty of the Authority (so far as its powers extend) to encourage, facilitate and support integrated education.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in operation at 26.10.2022, see s. 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/15/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:23.404257+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."
}