EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972

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EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 78



78.(1) A board may, with the approval of the Ministry, provide and maintain or
maintain a house or other residence for

(a)a teacher employed by the board;

(b)a caretaker, groundsman or other person employed by the board in connection
with a school or institution managed by the board or a maintained school or
any premises or property used by the board for educational purposes or
purposes connected therewith;

(2) The trustees of a maintained school may, notwithstanding anything in any
statute or scheme made thereunder or in any charter, deed, memorandum of
association, articles of association or other document constituting the school
or under which the land used for the school is vested or which otherwise
relates to the school or the land used for the school, lease part of the land
used for the school to a board for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b).

(3) Where a board provides and maintains or maintains a house or residence
under paragraph (1) the board may charge the person occupying the house or
residence such sums, if any, as the Ministry may approve.

(4) Where a board provides and maintains or maintains a house or residence
under paragraph (1), the board may permit the house or residence to be
occupied by any person when it is not required for a person mentioned in
paragraph (1) and may charge the person occupying the house or residence such
sums, if any, as the Ministry may approve.

(5) A board may, on giving six months notice to the occupant, recover
possession of any house or residence provided or maintained by it under the
foregoing provisions of this Article and where the house or residence is
vested in the Ministry may act on behalf of the Ministry in the recovery of
such possession.

(6) Where a board is entitled by virtue of paragraph (5) to recover possession
of any premises, the following provisions shall have effect in relation to
those premises

(a)the [Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978] shall not apply;

(b)the board may, notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law and without
prejudice to any other method of recovery, proceed under Part VII of the
Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 for the summary recovery of
the premises and for the purposes of any such proceedings that Part shall have
effect as if the board were the owner of the premises and the teacher or other
person in possession thereof was a person who had been put into such
possession by permission of the owner as caretaker.

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EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 78