EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972

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EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 27



27.(1) Each board shall secure the provision for its area of adequate
facilities for recreational, social, physical, cultural and youth service
activities and for services ancillary to education and for that purpose may,
with the approval of the Ministry, either alone or together with any other
board or any other person

(a)establish, maintain and manage any such facilities;

(b)organise any such activities;

(c)assist, by financial contributions or otherwise, any person to establish,
maintain and manage any such facilities or to organise any such activities;

(d)provide, or assist by financial contribution or otherwise in the provision
of, leaders for such activities; and

(e)defray or contribute towards the expenses of any persons taking part in any
such activities.

(2) A board shall, in carrying out its functions under paragraph (1), have
regard to the facilities provided by other boards and by other persons.

(3) A board may from time to time make bye-laws for all or any of the
following purposes:

(a)for regulating the use and management of any lands or buildings provided by
it for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (1);

(b)for regulating the days and times of, and charges for, admission to such
lands or buildings;

(c)for the preservation of order and prevention of nuisances in such lands and
buildings;

(4) Where a board has, for the purposes of paragraph (1), assumed
responsibility for the maintenance and management of any lands or buildings
situated outside its area, bye-laws relating to such lands or buildings shall
not be confirmed without consultation with the board for the area in which
such lands or buildings are situated.

(5) A board shall, unless the Ministry otherwise directs, assume
responsibility for the maintenance and management of lands and buildings in
its area which immediately before the date of the coming into operation of
this Article were maintained and managed by a former local education authority
or library authority for purposes similar to those mentioned in paragraph (1)
and shall also assume responsibility for the maintenance and management of any
lands and buildings whether within or outside its area for which, by direction
of the Ministry, it is required to assume responsibility for those purposes
and any bye-laws in force immediately before that date in relation to those
lands and buildings shall, until revoked by bye-laws made under paragraph (3)
continue in force and be subject to any amendments thereto by bye-laws so made
and whilst any such bye-laws so continue in force any reference therein to a
former local education authority or a former library authority or its officers
shall be deemed to be a reference to the appropriate board or its officers.

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EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 27