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Education Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1872

9. The Education Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1872.

[16^th January 1872.]

Whereas it is expedient to amend “The Education Ordinance 1871”:

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province by and 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 Amendment Ordinance 1872.”

2. Meaning of term “ Householder.”

The term householder in Section 31 of the above-mentioned Ordinance shall mean every person who occupies uses or resides in any dwelling-house warehouse office shop or other building and who in respect thereof shall under the provisions of any Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand or any Ordinance of the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury be rated for Municipal or Road Board purposes.

3. Provisions of Ordinance as to mode and time of election of School Committees not to extend to Christchurch, Timaru, Kaiapoi, or Lyttelton, &c.

The provisions of Sections 34 and 35 of the said Ordinance with respect to the mode and time of election of School Committees shall not extend to any Educational District any portion of which shall be comprised in the city of Christchurch or the towns of Timaru Kaiapoi or Lyttelton respectively on any other Municipality within the Province and with respect to a School Committee or School Committees for any district comprised within or including any part of the city of Christchurch or the said towns of Timaru Kaiapoi or Lyttelton or any other Municipality the following provisions shall have effect namely for the first election of School Committee under the said Ordinance in any district comprised in or including any part of the said city and town the candidates shall be nominated at the first meeting of the householders convened and held under and in pursuance of the provisions of Sections 32 and 33 of the said Ordinance and for every subsequent and annual election of the School Committee of any such district the candidates shall be nominated at the public meeting convened and held under the provisions of the said Ordinance And any householder may at such meeting nominate any number of persons being such householders as aforesaid not exceeding the number of persons to be elected and if at any such first or annual meeting there be no more candidates proposed than the number of members of the School Committee to be elected the Chairman of the meeting shall publicly declare the candidates then duly proposed to be duly elected and in the event of there being more candidates proposed than the number of members to be elected the Chairman shall call for a show of hands separately in favour of each candidate and after such show shall declare the persons in whose favour the show of hands shall appear to have been and if thereupon a poll be not demanded by one of the candidates or by not less than five electors the Chairman shall declare such persons to be duly elected.

4. If Poll demanded.

If a poll be demanded as aforesaid the Chairman shall then declare the day on which the same shall be held such day being a day not sooner than three days and not later than ten days from the day of such meeting and the poll shall thereupon stand appointed for such day and shall be opened and taken at such place in such manner and in accordance with such regulations as the Superintendent may from time to time by order prescribe and the Board may from time to time by order appoint or direct the appointment of any officers requisite for the purpose of any such election and do all other necessary things preliminary or incidental to any such election.

5. Ordinance. How to be construed.

This Ordinance shall be read and construed as part of “The Education Ordinance 1871.”