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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 100

Regulations under the Manual and Technical Instruction Acts, 1900 and 1902.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this third day of December, 1902.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by “The Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900,” and of all other powers and authorities him enabling in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth, in respect of the regulations made by Order in Council on the fourteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two, under the provisions of “The Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900,” hereby revoke the clauses numbered from one to twenty-seven, under the head of “School Classes,” and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations set forth in the First Schedule hereto; and in respect of the clauses numbered from twenty-eight to sixty-six, doth make the alterations and additions set forth in the Second Schedule hereto; and, with the like advice and consent, doth provide that the Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

I.—School Classes.

1. To render a class eligible for a grant under “The Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900” (hereinafter termed “the Act”), the controlling authority must, before the commencement of the instruction, submit for the approval of the Minister of Education, on forms supplied by the Education Department, particulars of the proposed class, accompanied where necessary by programmes of the work to be done, and by satisfactory proof of the competency of the instructor.

2. No payment shall be made on account of any class that has not been recognised by the Minister.

3. Application for recognition of a class in a public school must be supported by the recommendation of an Inspector of Schools, whose approval of the suitability of the proposed course of instruction shall be given with due regard to the needs of the particular school and to the value of such course as part of the general curriculum of the school.

4. Except in the case of classes doing work in any of the subjects named in clauses 23 to 27 hereunder, it will in general be a sufficient indication of the programme of work if the handbook followed be named.

5. The Department will from time to time issue programmes of work to serve as guides to the character of the work expected.

6. A recommendation by an Inspector of Schools will be sufficient to satisfy the Minister of the competency of an instructor for classes in public schools in all subjects except those named in clauses 24, 25, and 26 hereunder, in respect of which further evidence of competency will be required.

7. Registers of attendance must be kept for all classes.

8. For public-school classes in subjects named in clauses 19, 20, and 21 hereunder the public-school registers of daily attendance are to be used. These registers are to be forwarded to the Department after the close of the instruction for the year, if asked for.

9. (a.) For public-school classes in subjects named in clauses 23 to 27 hereunder, and for all secondary-school classes, the special registers supplied by the Department are to be used. These registers are to be open to any one appointed by the controlling authority, who shall record thereon the number of pupils present at the time of each visit, attesting the same by a dated signature. The attendance-sheets provided in the registers are to be forwarded to the Department, together with the claims for payment referred to in clause 14 hereof.

(b.) The instructions issued with these registers are to be strictly observed; failure to observe them may lead to a reduction in or to the withholding of the capitation earned by the classes concerned.

10. The absence of an attendance-sheet will be an absolute bar to the payment of a claim which such attendance-sheet should support as a voucher.

11. For the purposes of recording attendances at school classes in subjects named in clauses 23 to 27 hereunder, the presence of a pupil at a lesson in any recognised subject of manual or technical instruction may be regarded as “an attendance”; but no attendance at any lesson shall be marked on account of a pupil if he is absent for more than ten minutes from his place.

12. The average attendance for any period for a class in any of the subjects named in clauses 23 to 27 hereunder shall be computed by dividing the total number of attendances by the number of lessons given during the period.