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32. An “attendance,” for the purposes of the Act, means the attendance of one pupil for one hour at any class for which payment can be claimed under the Act.

33. The absence of a register will be an absolute bar to the payment of a claim which such register should support as a voucher.

34. The register must be forwarded to the Department within one month after the close of the instruction for the year.

35. All claims for payment must be made by the controlling authority on forms to be obtained from the Department, and must be sent to the Department within one month after the close of the term.

36. No payment will be made on account of any student who has attended less than half the number of times on which the class was held after the date on which he joined the class.

37. An addition of one-half to the rate of payment will, in general, be made in respect of classes held in a town of less than two thousand inhabitants and more than five miles from the office of an Education Board, or more than two miles from a town of over two thousand inhabitants.

38. Every class for manual and technical instruction must be conducted in a room adapted to the purpose, and fitted with the apparatus or tools suitable for the practical teaching of such class.

39. “Special” and “associated” classes must be open to all persons of good character complying with these regulations, and with the rules of the controlling authority or managers of the classes. Such rules must not require any test of a religious nature.

A.—Continuation Classes.

40. A “continuation class” means a class commencing not earlier than 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and in which instruction is given in the ordinary public-school subjects or other subjects of general or commercial education, such as the following:—

(1.) The subjects of the public-school syllabus for Standards V. and VI.

(2.) English, to include composition and the study of a work or works of a standard author or authors.

(3.) French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek; the teaching to include in every case a reasonable amount of continuous reading-matter, and, in the case of a living language, to be directed to the practical end of giving the pupils the power of speaking the language.

(4.) Mathematics (algebra and higher arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, &c.).

(5.) Mensuration (as for builders, surveyors, &c.), which must include practical measurements by the pupils.

(6.) Book-keeping, précis writing and correspondence, shorthand, typewriting, commercial and actuarial arithmetic, commercial law, or any other branch of political economy, economics of industry, commercial history, industrial history, commercial geography, when claims cannot be made for these subjects under the head of “technical instruction.”

(7.) Any natural, physical, or chemical science, treated practically, although not fulfilling the conditions laid down for such science as a branch of technical instruction. Not less than one-third of the time must, however, be devoted to practical work.

(8.) English history; general history; constitutional history.

(9.) Elocution.

(10.) Vocal music, which must include singing from notes and the elements of the theory of music.

(11.) Linear drawing by aid of instruments; freehand outline drawing of rigid forms from flat examples; freehand outline drawing from the “round.”

41. Except in the case of subjects marked with an asterisk, payment will not be made for more than two hours in any one week. In the case of subjects marked with an asterisk, payment will not be made for more than four hours in any one week.

42. No payment shall be made in respect of any subject in which the standard is lower than the Fifth Standard prescribed by regulations under “The Education Act, 1877,” nor in respect of any pupil under the age of thirteen years, nor in respect of any pupil-teacher for any subject included in his course of instruction as pupil-teacher.

B.—Manual and Technical Classes.

43. Classes for instruction in the following subjects may be recognised as classes under the Act:—

DIVISION I.

(1.) Geometrical drawing.

(2.) Perspective and sciography.