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8. In the case of the opening of a new school, or of the reopening of a school which has been closed for more than six months immediately preceding, the amount of the salaries due to the teachers of the school from the date of opening or reopening thereof shall be paid to the Board after the first calendar month in which the school shall have been open continuously on and after the first Monday of the month; and the staff and salaries shall be calculated on the average daily attendance from the day of the opening or reopening of the school until the end of such month; and in like manner for each subsequent month until the end of the first quarter during the whole of which the school shall have been open, when the average attendance from the date of opening or reopening of the school to the end of such quarter shall be held to be the yearly average attendance until the end of the next ensuing quarter; and in like manner for each subsequent quarter until the end of the school year in which the school shall have been open continuously for not less than one quarter immediately preceding the end of such year, when the average daily attendance from the opening or reopening of the school to the end of such year shall be held to be the yearly average attendance in the same way as if it were the average attendance for the whole year.

9. As soon as, under the provisions of the Act and these regulations, a reduction in the staff of a school is imminent, it shall be the duty of the Board to give notice to every teacher whom it may deem it necessary to discharge in order to carry out such reduction.

10. In the case of a reduction in the staff of a school, or in the case of the closing of a school, such amount shall be paid to the Board in respect of the teachers whose services are dispensed with as will enable the Board to comply with section 47 of “The Education Act, 1877”; but on no account will payment be made to the Board for the salary of any teacher for a longer period than three months after the end of the quarter in which the school ceases to be entitled to the services of such teacher; nor, in the case of the closing of a school, for a longer period than three months after the closing of such school.

11. The yearly average attendance for any education district shall be the mean of the average attendances for the four quarters of the year ended 31st December immediately preceding, expressed as a whole number correct to the nearest unit (one-half being reckoned as a whole), and in all cases the payments under subsection (b) of section 5 of the Act shall be paid upon such yearly average attendance:

Provided that, in the case of a new school, or of a school reopened during the year, the yearly average attendance for such school, as defined in clause 8 hereof, shall, after the first quarter during the whole of which such school has been open, be added to the yearly average attendance for the district; and that, in the case of any school closed during the year, the yearly average attendance for such school shall, after the first quarter during the whole of which the school has been closed, be deducted from the yearly average attendance for the district.

12. The sums payable under sections 5 and 7 of the Act, as ascertained in accordance with the staff and salaries under the Act, and with the average daily attendance as defined by these regulations, shall be paid to the Boards in monthly instalments.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of February, 1902.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and 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 hereby revoke the regulations heretofore made, and in lieu thereof doth make the following regulations, for the purposes of the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

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 by programme and time-table of work, and, where necessary, by satisfactory proof of the competency of the instructors.

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 subjects for classes doing work in other subjects not lower than Standard V., 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 woodwork, work in iron, cookery, dairy work, laundry work, and dressmaking, in respect of which further evidence of competency will be required.