JUNE 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1293

Regulations under Industrial Schools Acts.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of June, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882,” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and “The Private Industrial Schools Regulation and Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act, 1900,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby revoke the several regulations made under the said Act, and which are set forth in the Schedule hereto, and all other regulations for the time being in force under the said Act; and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations in respect of industrial schools within the meaning of the said recited Acts.

SCHEDULE.

Orders in Council revoked.

REGULATIONS.

Interpretation.

In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“Minister” means the person for the time being holding the office of Minister of Education under “The Education Act, 1877”:

“Judge” means any Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand or of any District Court in New Zealand:

“Stipendiary Magistrate” means any Stipendiary Magistrate holding office under “The Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1893,” or any Act passed in lieu thereof:

“Child” means any boy or girl being under the age of sixteen years, or, in the absence of positive evidence as to age, being under the apparent age of sixteen years in the opinion of the Stipendiary Magistrate or Judge dealing with such boy or girl under the provisions of “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882,” or any amendment thereof:

“Inmate” means any person under the age of twenty-one years who is now or shall hereafter be lawfully detained in any school by authority conferred by “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882,” or any amendment thereof, or by any Act thereby repealed, or who is now or shall hereafter be licensed out or apprenticed under such authority:

“Parent” means the father, stepfather, grandfather, mother, stepmother, or grandmother, or a brother if of full age, of a child born in lawful wedlock, or the mother of a bastard child; and, as to any child, includes the person who has become the adopting parent thereof within the meaning of “The Adoption of Children Act, 1881,” or any amendment thereof:

“School,” or “industrial school,” means any school established under this Act:

“Government school” means any school as hereinbefore defined supported mainly by public moneys of the colony voted for the purpose, or by endowments out of the public estate, and which school is mentioned as such in the Schedule to “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882,” or declared by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, to be such:

“Local school” means any school as hereinbefore defined supported either wholly or partially by the public moneys of any local body or bodies: Provided that such school be mentioned as such in the Schedule to “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882,” or be declared by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, to be such: