http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1987/167/article/1/made

The Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1987

School welfare, behaviour and attendance

Disabled children

Children in care

Government Printer for Northern Ireland

2015-12-07

NORTHERN IRELAND

This Order transfers to education and library boards the responsibility for the education of mentally handicapped children. It also imposes a duty to implement proposals as to primary and secondary schools which are approved by the Department, makes new provision regulating the carrying on of grant-aided schools and the employment of teachers and certain other non-teaching staff, empowers boards to make available the use of spare computer capacity and makes other miscellaneous amendments to the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.