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EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 28



28.(1) The Ministry shall keep a register of all independent schools which
register shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times and the
Ministry shall, subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), register therein any
independent school the proprietor of which makes application for the purpose
in the prescribed manner and furnishes the prescribed particulars.

(2) A school registered at the date of the coming into operation of this
Article in the register of independent schools under the provisions of any
enactment corresponding to paragraph (1) and repealed by this Order shall be
deemed to be registered under paragraph (1).

(3) An independent school shall not be registered if, by virtue of an order
made under this Part or the corresponding Part of any enactment repealed by
this Order,

(a)the proprietor is disqualified from being the proprietor of an independent
school; or

(b)the school premises are disqualified from being used as a school; or

(c)the school premises are used or proposed to be used for any purpose for
which they are disqualified by virtue of any such order.

(4) The registration of an independent school shall be provisional only until
the Ministry, after the school has been inspected on its behalf under the
provisions of this Order, gives notice to the proprietor that the registration
is final.

(5) The Ministry may make regulations prescribing the particulars to be
furnished by the proprietors of independent schools and such regulations may
provide for the notification to the Ministry of any changes in the particulars
so furnished and as to the circumstances in which the Ministry may delete the
name of any school from the register in the event of its being unable to
obtain sufficient particulars thereof.

(6) Any person who

(a)conducts an independent school, whether established before or after the
coming into force of this Article, which is not registered or provisionally
registered under paragraph (1); or

(b)being the proprietor of an independent school does any thing calculated to
lead to the belief that the school is so registered whilst it is provisionally
registered or not registered or that it is so provisionally registered whilst
it is not provisionally registered;



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