{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-uniforms-guidelines-and-allowances-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-uniforms-guidelines-and-allowances-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-14.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/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Power to extend application to pre-school education",
  "text": "(1) The Department of Education may make regulations which, despite the previous section—\n(a) enable guidelines under Chapter 1 to apply, and\n(b) cause guidelines under Chapter 1 to be taken to apply,\nwith respect to children who are receiving pre-school education.\n(2) The reference in this section to pre-school education—\n(a) has the meaning given by Article 17(8) of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (which relates to education at certain schools or other premises), and\n(b) includes primary education within the meaning given by the second limb (but not the first limb) of the relevant definition in Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986,\nas each of these elements is informed by the meaning of compulsory school age mentioned in Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.\n(3) Regulations under this Chapter may include—\n(a) consequential or ancillary provision, and\n(b) provision amending, or modifying the effect of, Chapter 1.\n(4) Regulations under this Chapter may not be made unless a draft of them has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 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/14",
    "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."
}