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9. The Education Ordinance 1873.
[16th June 1873.]
Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Public Education and the Formation and Management of Schools in the Province of Canterbury.
Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof as
follows:
1. Title.
The short title of this Ordinance shall be “The Education Ordinance
1873.”
2. Repeal of Ordinances.
The Education Ordinance 1871 and the Education Ordinance 1871 Amendment
Ordinance 1872 are hereby repealed Provided always that nothing
in this section
contained shall invalidate or be deemed taken or construed to invalidate or
affect any proceeding matter or thing
already taken or done by virtue in
pursuance of or under the authority or in pursuance of the said Ordinances or
any or either of
them.
3. Superintendent to act with advice of Executive Council.
Every act which the Superintendent is hereby authorised or required to
perform he shall perform solely in accordance with the advice
and consent of his
Executive Council and such advice shall be recorded on the minutes of the
Council.
4. Board to be constituted.
There shall be constituted a Board under the name of the Board of Education
and hereinafter called the Board.
5. How to be constituted.
The Board shall be appointed by the Superintendent and shall consist of eight
members to be appointed and removeable by the Superintendent.
6. Two members to resign yearly and vacancies to be filled by Superintendent.
Two members of the Board shall go out of office each year and the vacancies
shall be filled by appointment by the Superintendent.
7. Members retiring for first three years to be chosen by lot; afterwards to retire by rotation.
The two members who are to retire for the three first years respectively from
the appointment of the first Board shall be chosen by
lot at the first meeting
of the Board and after the said three years they shall retire by rotation two in
each year according to
length of service — the two who have served the
longest retiring in each year.
8. First appointment of Board.
The first appointment of Members shall take place on a day to be fixed by the
Superintendent such day to be as early as possible with
convenience after this
Ordinance shall come into operation and the date of such day shall thereafter be
the date on which the two
members shall annually retire and two new members
shall be appointed in their stead unless such date shall fall on a Sunday or
public
holiday and in that case the day following shall be the day instead
Provided always that the retiring members shall be eligible for
re-appointment
and shall hold office until the appointment of their successors shall take
effect.
9. Appointment to be gazetted.
Every appointment of a member or members of the Board shall be notified in
the Provincial Government Gazette and shall take effect
from the date of such
notification.
10. Time and place of meetings.
The first meeting of the Board shall be held at such time and place as shall
be determined by the Superintendent and notified by proclamation
in the
Provincial Government Gazette and all subsequent meetings shall be held at such
times and places as the Board may by any regulation
in that behalf determine
Provided that at least one meeting shall be held in every month after such first
meeting.
11. Election of Chairman.
The Board shall at its first meeting elect one of its members to be Chairman
thereof who shall preside at the meetings of the Board
and shall have an
original and where the number of votes are equal also a casting vote thereat
Provided that if the Chairman shall
be absent from any meeting the members
present shall elect one of their number to preside in his stead at such meeting
and such Presiding
Member shall have the same power at such meeting as the
Chairman.
12. Chairman or any member of the Board removable by Superintendent.
The Chairman or any member of the Board shall be removable by the
Superintendent on a requisition to that effect signed by at least
four members
of the Board being presented to him praying for such removal.
13. Absence of any member.
If any member shall absent himself from the Board for three consecutive
ordinary meetings without the leave of the Board his seat
on the Board shall
become vacant.
14. Resignation and vacancies.
Any member of the Board may resign his seat thereat by signifying in writing to the Superintendent his desire so to do and any vacancy caused by the resignation death removal or absence of any member shall be filled up by appointment as aforesaid. Provided that all acts of the Board done during the existence of such vacancy shall be as valid as if such vacancy had not occurred.
15. Term of office of member appointed to fill vacancy.
The member appointed to fill up any casual vacancy shall retain his office so
long only as the vacating member would have retained
the same if no such casual
vacancy had occurred.
16. Questions how decided.
All questions coming before the Board shall be decided by a majority of the
members present and there shall be no meeting of the Board
unless at least three
members be present.
17. Regulations for conduct of business.
It shall be lawful for the Board from time to time to make and to revoke and
alter such regulations as they may think fit for the
conduct of the business of
the Board.
18. Application for Grants.
The Board shall entertain and decide upon all questions for the distribution
of public money appropriated by the Provincial Council
for establishing or
aiding the establishment and maintenance of new schools and for aiding existing
district schools.
19. Examination of Teachers.
It shall be lawful for the Board to enquire as to the knowledge and
qualifications of any person who may be desirous of becoming a
Teacher or Master
in any school and for that purpose from time to time to appoint a fit person to
examine candidates and it shall
be lawful for the Board to make such regulations
respecting the subjects comprised and the general conduct of such examinations
as
it shall from time to time think fit.
20. Classification of Teachers.
The Board shall make regulations for the classification of Teachers employed
in Schools receiving pecuniary assistance from the Board
and for the issue of
certificates showing the class in which by their knowledge and qualifications
such teachers may be entitled
to be placed.
21. Regulations for Administration of Funds.
It shall be lawful for the Board to frame regulations for the distribution of
the funds appropriated annually by the Provincial Council
for the maintenance of
schools in the Province which regulations shall be published in the Provincial
Government Gazette.
22. Annual Report
The Board shall before the thirty-first day of December in each year render to the Superintendent a full report of all things done by it by virtue of this Ordinance during the year ending the fifteenth day of October preceding such report.
23. Appointment of Inspectors.
There shall be an Inspector or Inspectors of Schools who shall be appointed
and be removable by the Superintendent on the recommendation
of the
Board.
24. Duty of Inspectors.
It shall be the duty of the Inspector or Inspectors from time to time as the
Board shall direct to inspect all schools receiving aid
from the Board to
furnish all such reports as the Board may require and generally to be guided in
the performance of their duties
by such instructions as they may receive from
the Chairman of the Board.
25. Formation of Districts.
All localities formed into Educational Districts under the provisions of any
Ordinance hereby repealed shall be held to be Educational
Districts for the
purposes of this Ordinance and the persons in office at the time of the coming
into operation of this Ordinance
as District School Committees of any such
districts shall continue in office until their successors are elected under this
Ordinance.
26. Boundaries of Districts.
The Superintendent may declare any portion of the Province not comprised
within the limits of any Educational District to be an Educational
District by
proclamation to be published in the Provincial Government Gazette and in one of
the newspapers published and circulated
in the Province and he shall therein set
forth the boundaries and name of every such District and from and after such
publication
every such portion shall become and be an Educational District under
and subject to the provisions of this Ordinance provided that
it shall not be
lawful for the Superintendent to declare any part of the Province an Educational
District unless or until it has
not less than twenty-five children between the
ages of five and thirteen years residing within such portion.
27. Districts may be altered, divided, or combined.
It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to alter boundaries of any Educational District and to divide any Educational District into two or more Districts or parts of Districts or to combine two or more Districts or parts of Districts into one or to add portions of any District to any adjoining District or to add any locality not being or forming part of a District to an Educational District and in every such case the District or Districts constituted or affected thereby shall be deemed to be and
shall be proclaimed as provided in the said Ordinance as newly constituted Educational District or Districts and all proceedings connected therewith shall be taken and conducted in like manner as provided for Educational Districts constituted under this Ordinance or to abolish any District and thereupon such District shall to all intents and purposes cease to exist as if the same had never been constituted.
28. Election of committee and auditors.
Whenever any portion of the Province shall be proclaimed an Educational
District the Board shall forthwith convene a meeting of the
householders of such
District for the purpose of electing a Committee (to be called the District
School Committee) of not less than
three nor more than nine persons being
householders of the district and of electing two persons who shall not be
members of. the
District School Committee to act as Auditors of the accounts of
the said Committee before the same shall be presented to the next
annual meeting
and such elections shall be conducted in such manner and in accordance with such
regulations as the Superintendent
may from time to time by order prescribe The
persons so elected shall hold office until the election of their successors in
manner
hereinafter mentioned and if from any cause the elections of time
Committee and Auditors or either of them shall at a meeting aforesaid
not take
place it shall be lawful for the Board to appoint another time and the same or a
different place for such elections or either
of them to be conducted under such
regulations as aforesaid.
29. Neglect or refusal to elect committee.
If and whenever the householders of any Educational District shall refuse or
neglect to elect a District School Committee under the
provisions of the
preceeding Section or under the provisions of Section 33 the immediately on
being satisfied of such refusal or
neglect shall by Proclamation published in
the Provincial Government Gazelle appoint a Commissioner for such district who
shall hold
office until the second Monday in the month of October next following
his appointment and all the powers rights privileges and duties
of a District
School Committee shall from the date of such Proclamation vest in and be
exercised by such Commissioner and the Superintendent
shall cause such
reasonable salary as he shall think fit to be paid to such Commissioner out of
any funds applicable to the purposes
of the Educational District under the
provisions of this Ordinance Provided that such Commissioner shall be guided in
the performance
of his duties by such instructions as he shall receive from the
Board in that behalf and all acts by this section required to be
performed by
the Superintendent shall be performed only on a report of the circumstances from
the Chairman of the Board.
30. Neglect or refusal to elect auditors.
If and whenever the householders of any Educational District shall refuse or
fail to appoint at the time and place appointed two auditors
it shall be lawful
for the Superintendent to appoint one or more person or persons as he shall
think fit to be an auditor or auditors
for any district who shall exercise for
the time being all the powers rights and duties as if elected under the
provisions of this
Ordinance.
31. Annual meeting for election of Committee.
On the second Monday in the month of October in each year a public meeting of
householders in every Educational District shall be
held at a time and place
within each district respectively to be fixed by the Chairman of the Board and
notified by public advertisement
and at such meeting the District School
Committee for the preceding year or portion of the year as the case may be shall
give a full
report of its proceedings during that period and a statement of its
accounts and thereupon time householders as aforesaid shall proceed
to elect a
new District School Committee for the ensuing year of not less than three or
more than nine persons being householders
as aforesaid and shall also elect two
persons who shall not be members of the District School Committee to act as
auditors of the
accounts of the said Committee before the same shall be
presented to the next annual meeting and such elections shall be conducted
in
such manner and in accordance with such regulations as the Superintendent may
from time to time by order prescribe.
32. Neglect to elect Committee or Auditors.
If and whenever the householders of any Educational District shall from any
cause whatever fail to elect a District School Committee
or auditors upon any
annual day of meeting as hereinbefore provided the Board shall fix another day
for the election of a District
School Committee or auditors as the case may be
for such district and notice of such meeting shall be given and the same
proceedings
taken thereat as are hereinbefore prescribed for ordinary annual
meetings held for the purpose of electing District School Committees
and
auditors.
33. Inability or unwillingness of Committee to carry on duties.
If from any cause a District School committee shall be unable or if they
shall be unwilling to carry on the duties of such Committee
or if there shall be
at any time no existing Committee in any Educational District under this
Ordinance the Superintendent shall
except when otherwise provided on the
recommendation of the Board by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette
declare that
no School Committee exists in such district and shall immediately
thereupon call together a meeting of the householders in such Educational
District and thereupon such proceedings shall be taken for the election of a
Committee or in default of such election for the appointment
of a Commissioner
as are hereinbefore provided.
34. Regulations for the election or the re-election of Committee to be prescribed by Superintendent.
It shall be lawful for the Superintendent in and by any regulations he may be
authorised by order to prescribe for the conduct of
any elections of District
School Committees to provide that if at any meeting convened for the election or
re-election of a District
School Committee a poll be demanded by six
householders that such poll shall be taken on a subsequent day at such place and
between
such hours of the day as may be prescribed in such regulations on that
behalf and to make all necessary provisions to carry the same
into
effect.
35. Vacancies in Committee how to be filled.
If any vacancy or vacancies shall occur by death removal from the district
resignation or otherwise in any District School Committee
the remaining members
of such Committee shall forthwith elect a qualified person or persons to fill
such vacancy or vacancies.
36. Vacancies, how caused.
If any member of any District School Committee shall cease to be a
householder in the district for which he has been elected or shall
signify in
writing to the Chairman of the Committee his desire to resign his seat or if he
shall be absent for three consecutive
meetings without leave of the Committee or
shall become insolvent or of unsound mind or shall have been convicted of felony
or shall
be in arrears of any rates which he shall become liable to pay under
the authority of this Ordinance or shall accept or continue
to hold any place of
profit or emolument under the Board or Committee of such District or shall have
any pecuniary interest in any
work of a value not exceeding £20 in the
aggregate in any one year done in such district under the authority of the Board
or
Committee other than as a shareholder in a public registered company
contracting therewith he shall thereupon cease to be a member
of the School
Committee.
37. Proceedings of School Committee.
The proceedings of every District School Committee shall be transacted at
meetings the time and place for which shall have been previously
fixed by such
Committee or at meetings to be convened by the Chairman of such Committee and it
shall be the duty of the Chairman
to convene such meeting whenever he shall be
requested in writing so to do by two or more members of such Committee or in the
event
of there being no Chairman or until the election of the Chairman or should
the Chairman decline to convene the meeting as requested
any two members of the
Committee may convene a meeting of the Committee to be held at the time and
place and for the purpose specified
in a written notice to be sent to the
residence of each member of the Committee.
38. Election of Chairman.
Every District School Committee shall at its first meeting elect one of its
members to be Chairman thereof who shall preside at the
meetings of the
Committee and shall have an original and when the number of votes shall be equal
also a casting vote thereat and
such Chairman shall forthwith notify his
election and his usual address to the Board Provided that if the aforesaid
Chairman shall
be absent from any meeting the members present shall elect one of
their number to preside in his stead at such meeting and such presiding
member
shall have the same power at such meeting as the Chairman.
39. Chairman to be removable.
The Chairman of any District School Committee shall be removable by the Superintendent on the recommendation of the Board on a requisition to that effect signed by at least three-fourths of the members of such Committee being presented to him praying for such removal.
40. Chairman ceasing to be member.
If the Chairman shall cease to be a member of the District School Committee
or shall by writing under his hand addressed to such Committee
vacate the office
of Chairman or shall be removed by the Superintendent the Committee shall at its
next meeting thereafter elect
another member to be Chairman in his
stead.
41. Questions how to be decided.
All questions coming before the District School Committee shall be decided by
a majority of the votes of the members present and there
shall be no meeting of
such Committee unless at least three members be present.
42. Rates may be levied for erection of School buildings.
If and whenever in any Educational District constituted under the provisions
of this Ordinance the owners and occupiers of land and
householders shall fail
within a time to be limited for that purpose by the Board to contribute and pay
to the Provincial Treasurer
the amount which shall be fixed by the Board as the
contribution of such District to the cost of the school buildings and of the
acquisition of a suitable site together with time sum required as hereinafter
mentioned for time purchase of books apparatus and
fittings for the school or if
and whenever it shall appear to the Board that additions or repairs to any
school building in any Educational
District are required and time owners
occupiers of land and householders of such district shall fail within a time to
be limited
for that purpose by the Board to pay to the Provincial Treasurer the
estimated cost of such additions or repairs a such proportion
as the Board may
direct to be paid by such owners occupiers of land and householders it shah be
lawful for the Superintendent by
proclamation in the Provincial Government
Gazette to declare an uniform rate to be leviable upon the amount of the annual
value of
the property comprised within such district as stated in time
Ratepayers Roll or Rolls of time Municipality or Road district or districts
for
the time being in force which are or shall be included either wholly or in part
within the boundaries of such Educational District
to be paid by the persons
liable to pay rates in respect to such property for Municipal or Road Board
purposes provided that such
rates shall not exceed in any one year one shilling
in the pound of the amount of such annual value.
43. How payable and recoverable.
The said rates shall be paid to time Superintendent or to such person or
persons as he shall appoint within six weeks after the date
of such proclamation
and if the amount of such rate or any part thereof shall not be paid as
aforesaid within the time prescribed
the same shall be recovered as a debt at
the suit of the Superintendent Provided always that it shall be lawful for the
Superintendent
to excuse from the payment of such rate any person whom he may
deem unable through poverty to pay the same The amount of such rate
when
collected or recovered as aforesaid shall be paid into the Provincial Treasury
and shall be applied in the first place in defraying
the expenses of collecting
such rate and subject thereto towards the erection of school buildings or
additions or repairs to any
school buildings the acquisition of a site for a
school and for the purchase of books apparatus and fittings for such
school.
44. Road Board to supply copy of Ratepayers’ Roll of District.
The Chairman of any Road Board within time Province shall on receiving a
request to that effect in writing from the Superintendent
supply the person or
persons appointed under the foregoing clauses with a certified copy of the
Ratepayer’s Roll then in force
in any such Road District or of such
portion of the said Roll as may be required on receiving payment of the cost of
preparing the
same.
45. District School Committee — Expenditure of Funds.
Every District School Committee shall expend all money paid to it under any
Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council
in accordance with the
provisions of such Ordinance and shall expend all money received by it arising
from rates to be levied within
the district and all other moneys received by it
under this Ordinance in the maintenance and support of the school or Schools
under
its control and in accordance with such regulations as shall be framed by
time Board for that purpose.
46. Auditing of Accounts.
Every District School Committee shall on or before the twenty-first day of
October in each year submit its accounts made up to time
30th September in each
preceding year to time two Auditors appointed by the preceding public meeting of
persons qualified to vote
in the district and it shall be the duty of the said
Auditors to audit the same and their certificate shall be laid before the next
annual meeting and a certified copy of such statement of accounts and
certificate shall be transmitted by such Auditors to the Chairman
of the
Board.
47. Transfer of moneys to succeeding Committee.
Any moneys in the hands or under the control of any District School Committee
at the expiration of its term of office shall be paid
over by such Committee to
its successor immediately after its election.
48. Establishment of Schools, appointments of teachers and teachers’
salaries.
In every Educational District it shall be lawful for the District School
Committee with the sanction of the Board and subject to the
conditions
hereinafter mentioned to establish one or more schools and to fix and determine
the salary of the teacher or teachers
and to appoint or dismiss the teacher or
teachers of such school or schools and generally to have the management of such
school or
schools within the district Provided that the salary of male teachers
in any schools of twenty children or upwards in average daily
attendance not
being assistant or pupil teachers shall be not less than £130 per annum and
of female teachers not being pupil
teachers not less than £60 per annum in
all schools included in any Educational District.
49. Qualification of Teachers.
No appointment of any teacher shall be valid until such teacher shall have
produced to the Board a certificate of qualification from
Her Majesty’s
Committee of Privy Council on Education or from an Inspector of Schools
appointed under the provisions of this
Ordinance or from any Examiner or
Examiners to be appointed by the Board and such other certificates of fitness as
shall be required
by any regulations of the Board and every appointment or
dismissal of any teacher or any reduction made in his salary after being
once
fixed shall be subject to the sanction of the Board.
50. Pupil Teachers.
It shall be lawful for the Board to make and from time to time to alter rules
and regulations for time examination training and employment
of pupil teachers
and to grant any moderate sum or sums of money in aid of time maintenance and
education of such pupil teachers
and time District School Committee may from
time to time engage and employ one or more of such pupil teachers on such terms
as the
Board shall think fit.
51. Grants in aid for school buildings.
It shall be lawful for the Board to grant to any District School Committee or
Commissioner appointed in accordance with the provisions
of this Ordinance any
sum not exceeding five-sixths of time estimated cost of time buildings fittings
and apparatus required and
the land required for a site or sites for the
establishment of a school or schools in any district constituted under this
Ordinance
or the estimated cost of repairing or adding to any buildings fittings
or apparatus that may already exist on time school site or
the cost of
increasing time area of time school site.
52. Conditions upon which grants may be made.
No aid shall be granted by time Board for the establishment of a new school
unless
(1st) The site and plan of the buildings shall first have been approved of by
the Board.
(2nd) The site or sites outside the limits of a town shall be at least one
acre in extent The site or sites within the limits of a
town shall be such as
shall be approved of by the Board Provided that time school-buildings in any
educational district may on the
approval of the Board be placed on a site
separate from time site of the master’s house.
(3rd) The site or sites be previously vested in time Superintendent for the purposes of a school by a grant in fee.
(4th) There shall have been deposited in the Provincial Treasury a sum equal
to one-sixth of the estimated cost of the buildings
and site or the estimated
cost of repairing or adding to any building that may already exist on the school
site or the Superintendent
shall have taken steps to levy the amount fixed by
the Board in accordance with section 42 Provided that time proposed site and any
building that may exist thereon and which may be deemed by the Board suitable
for the purposes of a school may be accepted by them
at an estimated value by
way of payment or part payment of the contribution aforesaid.
53. Insurance of School Buildings.
The Board shall out of any moneys appropriated or to be appropriated by the
Provincial Council for the purpose of education effect
insurances on all school
buildings erected on land vested in the Superintendent.
54. Committee to have control of schoolroom.
The District School Committee shall have absolute control over the schoolroom
and shall determine the purposes for which it may be
used at any time except in
school hours.
55. Householders in district to make yearly payment towards maintenance of school.
Except as hereinafter provided no school fees shall be charged in any school
in any Educational District receiving aid from the Board
on account of any
children receiving instruction therein but in lieu thereof there shall be paid
yearly by every householder residing
within a radius of three miles from the
school in each such district a sum of Twenty Shillings and a further sum of Five
Shillings
for every child of such householder between time ages of six and
thirteen years Provided always that no person shall be liable to
pay in respect
of his children a greater annual sum than Twenty Shillings nor for any child
attending a school not receiving aid
or receiving efficient instruction in some
other manner to the satisfaction of the District School Committee Provided that
such child
be not incapacitated from receiving such instruction through any
mental or physical infirmity and provided that proof of such infirmity
be
adduced to the satisfaction of time District School Committee.
56. When and how payable.
The said annual sum shall be paid by every such householder to some person or
persons from time to time appointed by the Superintendent
to receive the same at
such time in each year and at such place within each Educational District
respectively as shall be fixed by
the Superintendent by public notice in some
newspaper published and generally circulated within the Province not less than
twenty-one
days before the time appointed and every such person shall hold
office during the Superintendent’s pleasure and if the said
sums or any
part thereof respectively shall not be paid on or before such time the same may
be recovered as a debt at the suit of
the Superintendent Provided always that it
shall be lawful for the Superintendent on the recommendation of the District
School Committee
to excuse any person from the payment of such sums of money who
may be deemed unable through poverty to pay the same.
57. Moneys collected payable to Chairman of Committee.
The person or persons so appointed to collect the sums of money shall after
deducting such reasonable charge for collecting as may
be authorised by the
Superintendent pay over to the Chairman of the District School Committee the
moneys collected or recovered by
him.
58. Proceeds of annual rate, how to be applied.
After providing for the salary or salaries of the teacher or assistant
teacher or teachers the sums received by the Committee shall
be applicable to
the purchase of books apparatus fittings the repair of buildings the fencing of
the land annexed thereto and other
incidental expenses.
59. Fees to be paid in certain cases.
Any child over the age of five years may attend any school which may be under
the control of any District School Committee on payment
in advance of such
school fees as the Board of Education may by regulation determine not exceeding
five shillings per quarter but
nothing in this Section shall be construed as
imposing any liability for school fees in respect of children between the ages
of six
and thirteen of any householder liable to pay or who shall have paid
rates or fees under the provisions of Section 55 of this Ordinance.
60. Board to pay sums for maintenance of school to Chairman of
Committee.
All sums payable by the Board for the maintenance of any school shall be paid
to the Chairman of the Committee of the district in
which such school shall be
situate or his order.
61. Teacher only to instruct.
No person other than the teacher or teachers except as hereinafter provided
shall be allowed to give instruction in any school.
62. Religious Instruction permitted.
The Committee of any school may set apart either one whole school day or two half school days in every week during which any Minister or Ministers of religion or person or persons appointed by them and approved by time Local Committee may impart religious instruction to such of the children on the books of the school as may belong to his or their religious denominations Provided that no child or children shall be allowed to attend at such instruction except on a written request to that effect addressed to the teacher by the parents or guardians of such child or children.
63. Board may make special grants to certain school.
It shall be lawful for the Board notwithstanding anything hereinbefore or
herein after provided to grant any sum or sums of money
in aid of the efforts
made by private individuals or associations for the promotion of education in
localities in which from the
smallness or scattered position or the unsettled
nature of the population no Educational District shall have been
constituted.
64. Provision for physical and military drill.
In any of the schools subject to the provisions of this Ordinance as the
Board of Education shall from time to time direct provision
shall be made for
physical training and instruction in military drill The training and drill shall
be such and be conducted and taught
in such manner as shall from time to time be
prescribed in regulations to be made by the Board.
65. Quarterly returns to be made.
It shall be the duty of the Chairman of every Committee of any school
district to transmit to the Chairman of the Board within one
week from the
termination of every quarter returns according to forms to be supplied by the
Board of the number of children on the
books of the respective schools the
average attendance the amount of fees if any paid and due the scale of such fees
and such other
particulars with regard to time condition of the school as the
Board shall require.
66. Inspection of schools.
It shall be lawful for the Board or any member or members thereof or any
officer of the Board or any other person authorised by the
Board to enter any
school receiving aid during school hours for the purposes of inspection or
otherwise.
67. Expulsion of children.
It shall be lawful for the teacher in any school established or maintained
under the provisions of this Ordinance to expel or forbid
the attendance of any
child for want of cleanliness or who may be likely to communicate any contagious
disease or who from gross
misconduct or incorrigible disobedience may be
considered an injurious or dangerous example to the other scholars the parent or
guardian
of such child having a right of appeal first to the School Committee
and finally to the Board.
68. Branches of Instruction.
In all Schools aided by time Board the system of elementary education shall comprise reading writing spelling arithmetic geography history sacred and profane and English grammar Provided that no child shall be compelled to be present at the teaching of history whose parents or guardians shall object thereto Provided also that instruction in any other subjects may be given in any such schools and fees may be charged for the same in accordance with the regulations to be framed by the Board such fees to be payable to the District School Committee.
69. In case of provisions of Ordinance being contravened in respect to any school, or incompetency or negligence of any teacher, Board may carry out provisions payable to such school monies expended by it in so doing.
In any case where it shall appear to the Board that any of the provisions of
this Ordinance have been contravened in respect of any
school established under
the provisions of this Ordinance or where the site buildings or premises of such
school are insufficient
or otherwise unsuitable or where the school apparatus is
defective or where the school is generally inefficiently conducted it shall
be
lawful for the Board to take all measures and do all acts which shall be
necessary to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance
and to remedy all such
defects as aforesaid in such school.
70. Depôt of books and apparatus.
There shall be a depôt of school books and apparatus under the charge
of the Chairman of the Board and the Committee of every
school aided by the
Board shall purchase at the said depôt the books and apparatus required
for the use of such schools at
such prices as shall be fixed by the Board and
the proceeds of such sales shall from time to time after payment of the expenses
connected
with the said depôt be expended in the purchase of supplies of
such books and apparatus.
71. Accounts to be audited.
All accounts of the Board and of any Commissioner appointed under the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be audited yearly by the
Provincial
Auditor.
72. Rates, &c., recoverable at suit of Superintendent.
All rates and other sums of money made payable by this Ordinance shall be
recoverable at the suit of the Superintendent.
73. Rates, &c., payable prior to passing of this Ordinance recoverable at suit of Superintendent.
All rates and other sums of money made payable under the authority or
provisions of the Ordinances hereby repealed shall be paid received
and
recovered in like manner as the same might have been paid received and recovered
if this Ordinance had not been passed.
74. Householder.
The term Householder in this Ordinance shall mean every person who as owner tenant lessee or occupier occupies uses or resides in any dwelling-house warehouse shop or other building in any Educational District or every parent or guardian who is liable to maintain or has the actual custody of any child Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed in any way to affect any dwelling- house the property of Her Majesty or in the occupation of the Crown or Government of the Colony.
75. Commencement of Ordinance.
This Ordinance shall come into operation upon and after the first day of July
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
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