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10. The Education Ordinance 1857
Whereas it is expedient to make better provision for the establishment and
maintenance of schools within the Province of Canterbury:
Be it therefore
enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice and consent
of the Provincial Council thereof
as follows:—
1. Sums voted to the several Denominations.
Out of the public revenues of the said Province there shall be paid every
year during the five years ending on the Thirty-first day
of March, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two, the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Pounds
sterling to the several persons,
and in the several portions undermentioned
respectively; that is to say,—
To the Bishop of Christchurch, or other the acting
Head of the Church of England within the said Province ... ... ...
£1700
To the principal Minister, or other the acting Head of the
Wesleyan Body within the said Province ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
... ... £250
To the principal minister, or other the acting, head of the
Presbyterian Body within the said Province ... ... ... ... ... ...
... ... £250
2. To be paid by the Provincial Treasurer under the direction of the
Superintendent.
The Provincial Treasurer shall pay such sums to the persons hereinbefore
named, in such portions and at such times as the Superintendent
shall, by any
Warrants under his hand, from time to time direct; and shall be allowed credit
in his Accounts for all sums so paid;
and the receipt of the persons above
named, or of any persons lawfully authorized to receive such moneys in their
behalf respectively,
shall be a full discharge to the Provincial Treasurer for
the sum or sums for which such receipts shall be given.
3. How to be expended.
The sums hereby granted shall be expended by the Heads of the religious
Bodies above named in the establishment, maintenance, and
support of schools
within the Province of Canterbury.
4. Schools so maintained to be under the management of one of the Heads of the said Christian Bodies.
Every school which shall be wholly or in part maintained out of the sums hereby granted shall be placed under the entire management of one of the Heads of the Christian Bodies hereinbefore named; and such Head shall have the appointment and removal of the Teachers and the entire control over all the
instruction, both religious and secular, in any school so placed under his
management.
5. Religious instruction not to be enforced if Parent objected
If the Parents of any Child attending any such school shall wish it, such a
Child shall not be required to attend at such times as
are peculiarly set apart
for instruction in the doctrines of religion.
6. School fees
The school fees shall be the same in all schools of a similar class receiving
aid out of the sums hereby granted, and such fees shall
be on a scale to be
fixed by the Superintendent and Executive Council, in consultation with the
Heads of the several religious Bodies
abovementioned.
7. The appointment and removal of the Inspector.
There shall be an Inspector of Schools, who shall be appointed and be
removable by the Superintendent, with the advice of the Executive
Council:
Provided that such appointment shall be made with the assent of the Bishop of
Christchurch, and of not less than half the
other acting Heads of the different
religious denominations receiving aid in support of schools out of the grant
hereby made, or
out of any grant which may be made hereafter.
8. Powers of the Inspector.
Such Inspector shall have power to inspect and examine all schools wholly or in part maintained out of the grants hereby made, and to require the Managers and Teachers of any such school to furnish full information as to the course of secular instruction carried on therein, and as to the attendance of the Children, and as to the school fees received, and the expenditure of any portion of the sums hereby granted in the support of such school, and shall report thereon to the
Government: Provided that the Inspector shall not examine into or report upon
the religious instruction carried on in any such school.
9. Grants may be withheld by Superintendent.
If the Superintendent and Executive Council shall be satisfied, upon the
report of the Inspector, that the secular instruction carried
on in any such
school is not satisfactory, or that the Manager or Teachers of any such school
have refused or neglected to afford
such information as the Inspector is hereby
authorized to require, or to afford proper facilities for the examination and
inspection
of such school, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the
advice of the Executive Council, to prohibit the application
of any portion of
the sums hereby granted to such school for so long as he shall think
fit.
10. Accounts and Reports.
Detailed Accounts shall be furnished annually to the Superintendent by the Head of each religious denomination of the expenditure of the grant received by it.
Such Accounts, together with the reports furnished by the Inspector, shall be
laid before the Provincial Council.
11. Title.
This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as the Education
Ordinance, Session VIII., No. 10."
Notes.
This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 19th June
1857, and assented to by the Superintendent, on 30th June.
It was repealed by The Education Ordinance 1871 [Session 35], but see “The
Board of Education Ordinance, 1863, passed during Session XX., of the
Council.
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