Legge 1998, n.51

EDUCATION ACT, 1998

An act to make provision in the interests of the common good for the education of every person in the state, including any person with a disability or who has other special educational needs, and to provide generally for primary, post-primary, adult and continuing education and vocational education and training; to ensure that the education system is accountable to students, their parents and the state for the education provided, respects the diversity of values, beliefs, languages and traditions in irish society and is conducted in a spirit of partnership between schools, patrons, students, parents, teachers and other school
staff, the community served by the school and the state; to provide for the recognition and funding of schools and their management through boards of management; to provide for an inspectorate of schools; to provide for the role and responsibilities of principals and teachers; to establish the national council for curriculum and assessment and to make provision for it, and to provide for related matters. [23rd december, 1998] be it enacted by the oireachtas as follows:

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art. 15.

(1) It shall be the duty of a board to manage the school on
behalf of the patron and for the benefit of the students and their
parents and to provide or cause to be provided an appropriate
education for each student at the school for which that board has
responsibility.

(2) A board shall perform the functions conferred on it and on
a school by this Act and in carrying out its functions the board
shall—
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(b) uphold, and be accountable to the patron for so
upholding, the characteristic spirit of the school as
determined by the cultural, educational, moral, religious,
social, linguistic and spiritual values and traditions which
inform and are characteristic of the objectives and
conduct of the school, and at all times act in accordance
with any Act of the Oireachtas or instrument made
thereunder, deed, charter, articles of management or
other such instrument relating to the establishment or
operation of the school
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(e) have regard to the principles and requirements of a
democratic society and have respect and promote
respect for the diversity of values, beliefs, traditions,
languages and ways of life in society,
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art.35.

(1) Section 5 of the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act,
1878, is hereby amended in subsection (4) by the deletion of “;
provided that no examination shall be held in any subject of
religious instruction, nor any payment made in respect thereof”.
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