The Raising of School Leaving Age Order (NI) 1972
WHEREAS Section 33(1) of the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947(a) defines the expression "compulsory school age" in that Act by reference to an upper limit of 15 years:

AND WHEREAS Section 33(2) of that Act provides that, as soon as the Ministry of Education is satisfied that it has become practicable to raise to sixteen the upper limit of compulsory school age, it shall lay before Parliament the draft of an Order in Council directing that subsection (1) of the said section shall have ef...