1.1  The Education Act, 1998

The Education Act, 1998 requires that each school should have a registered patron. Section 8 (1)(b) of the Act provides that –

a.       The persons who, at the commencement of this section, stand appointed as trustees or as the board of governors of a post-primary school and, where there are no such trustees or such board, the owner of that school, shall be deemed to be the patron for the purposes of this Act and the Minister shall enter his, her or their name, as appropriate, in a register kept for that purpose by the Minister.

Last updated February 2011