EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972

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EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 10



10.(1) Subject to and in accordance with regulations made by the Ministry, a
board shall, in relation to a maintained school, be responsible for the
maintenance of the school premises, for providing and replacing equipment, for
employing in accordance with Article 77, persons, other than teachers,
required in or about the school and for meeting the cost of doing all such
other things as may be necessary for the carrying on of the school except
meeting the cost of

(a)providing new or altering existing school premises;

(b)the payment of the salaries of teachers in the school and of [secondary
Class I contributions under the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975
and employers'] superannuation contributions in respect of teachers;

(c)redundancy payments under the Contracts of Employment and Redundancy
Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 in respect of teachers ceasing to be
employed in the school;

(2) Subject to and in accordance with regulations made by the Ministry, a
board shall pay to the managers or body controlling a voluntary primary,
intermediate or special school which is not a maintained school contributions
amounting to sixty-five per cent. of the approved net expenditure incurred on
the lighting, heating, cleaning and internal and external maintenance of the
school premises [and the maintenance of equipment of the school] excluding, in
the case of a boarding school, so much of those premises [or that equipment]
as is used wholly or mainly for boarding purposes.

[(2A) Paragraph (2) shall, in like manner as it applies to approved net
expenditure incurred on maintenance, apply to approved expenditure incurred on
the payment of premiums for insurance against fire, flood and other damage to,
or loss of, the school premises or equipment.]

(3) Regulations made under this Article may make provision for the repayment,
in such circumstances as are specified in the regulations, of the whole or
part of any money paid under this Article in respect of a school and any sum
repayable by virtue of any such provision may be recovered by the board as a
debt due to it.

(4) Any question which may arise as to the responsibility or functions of a
board under this Article shall be referred to the Ministry whose decision
thereon shall be final.

(5) In this Article "board" in relation to a school means the board for the
area in which the school is situated or such other board as the Ministry may
determine.

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EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 10