The Education (1998 Order) (Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made: 19th October 2000

The Department of Education, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 1(3) of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998[^f00001] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Education (1998 Order) (Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000.

Appointed day

2

The following provisions of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 shall come into operation on 19th October 2000, that is to say—

• (a) Articles 34 to 41;

• (b) Schedule 1; and

• (c) Part II of Schedule 5 in so far as it relates to the amendments to—

• (i) Article 151(4) of the 1989 Order[^f00002],

• (ii) Article 78(7) of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996[^f00003].

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Education on 19th October 2000.

N. Jackson — Senior Officer of the — Department of Education

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order brings into operation on 19th October 2000 Articles 34 to 41 of and Schedule 1 to the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 which make provision for the constitution and functions of the General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland. Those provisions enable the Department, inter alia, to appoint the first registrar of the Council and to make regulations, as to the eligibility of persons for registration and the form and manner in which the register is kept. The Order also makes some consequential amendments which relate to the establishment of the Council.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1998/1759 (N.I. 13)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1989/2406 (N.I. 20)

[^f00003]: S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16)