{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-uniforms-guidelines-and-allowances-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-uniforms-guidelines-and-allowances-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2026/1",
  "legislation_title": "School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Act (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-uniforms-guidelines-and-allowances-act-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Guidelines as to policies on school uniforms",
  "text": "(1) The Department of Education—\n(a) must—\n(i) issue guidelines about school uniform policies applying at schools, and\n(ii) review such guidelines at least once every 3 years, and\n(b) may reissue such guidelines (and must do so if they are revised following review).\n(2) Guidelines from the Department may include provision setting out what—\n(a) particular or general factors are to be taken into account when devising or reviewing such policies, and\n(b) associated or additional explanation or information requires to be presented together with or separately from such policies.\n(3) Guidelines from the Department must include provision stating—\n(a) who, including pupils and their parents or guardians, is to be consulted when such policies are being devised or reviewed, and\n(b) how often such policies are to be reviewed.\n(4) Guidelines from the Department about such policies may—\n(a) include transitory, transitional or saving provision, and\n(b) allow or require there to be transitory, transitional or savings arrangements in such policies (or for changes to them).\n(5) Nothing in the rest of this Chapter limits what the Department may put into guidelines about such policies.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in operation at 20.2.2026, see s. 18(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2026/1/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:02.525429+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."
}