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ries Act, 1901,” His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the First Schedule hereto as additions to the regulations under the said Act made by Order in Council dated the fourteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two; and doth, further, cancel clause eleven of the said regulations, and in lieu thereof doth substitute the regulations set forth in the Second Schedule hereto; and, with the like advice and consent, doth hereby prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

1A. If the average attendance at any school for any quarter is less than two-thirds of the average weekly roll-number for such quarter, or is such as to place the school in a grade lower than that in which it would be placed by the mean of the average attendances for the other three quarters of the year, or if there be in any quarter less than thirty half-days on which the average attendance is at least half the number of the children on the roll, then, in the calculation of the yearly average attendance, there may, at the option of the Board, be substituted for the average attendance for such first-named quarter either the average attendance for the corresponding quarter of the preceding year or the average attendance for the quarter ending 31st December of the preceding year, and the average attendance thus found shall be in lieu of the yearly average attendance as defined in clause 1 hereof.

13. The average attendance for the purposes of the Third Schedule to the Act (“House Allowances”) shall be the yearly average attendance as defined by clause 1 of the said regulations of the 14th day of February, 1902; except that in the case of a new school, or of the reopening of a school which has been closed for more than six months immediately preceding, the average attendance for the first quarter during the whole of which the school has been open shall be the attendance on which the house allowance for the year is paid.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

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).

11A. Average daily attendance for the purposes of subsection (b) of section 5 of the Act shall for any quarter be the average daily attendance for the quarter immediately preceding.

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

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“The Education Act, 1877.”—Attendance Registers and Returns.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of March, 1903.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1877,” His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby cancel the regulations relating to attendance registers and returns made under the authority of the said Act by Orders in Council dated the fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and one, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulation hereto annexed, and with the like advice and consent doth hereby prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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REGULATION.

I.—Attendance Registers and Returns.

1. The head-teacher of each school shall keep a register of attendance in a form which shall be furnished by the Minister of Education; and all the teachers in the school shall assist in making up weekly and quarterly summaries of attendance.

2. The attendance of the scholars in each school shall be registered every morning and every afternoon; provided that in no case shall the register be marked later than one hour and a half before the close of morning or afternoon school, as the case may be. The register shall be marked and kept in accordance with the directions printed thereon.

3. Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of section 3 of “The School Attendance Act, 1901,” the attendance of a child at morning school shall be reckoned as one attendance, and the attendance of a child at afternoon school shall be reckoned as one attendance, and a school open in the morning and open in the afternoon shall be deemed to have been open twice. The school shall be held to be open any morning or afternoon if one child be present before the first half-hour of the ordinary school time has passed. The average daily attendance for any period shall be ascertained by first throwing out of account what shall be called “excepted” half-days—that is, every morning and every afternoon on which the attendances have numbered less than one-half of the number of pupils belonging at the time to the school—and by throwing out of account the attendances also of every such morning and such afternoon, and then by dividing the remaining number of attendances by the remaining number of half-days.

4. On the day on which the head-teacher of a school first knows that a pupil has been definitely removed from the school such head-teacher shall record the removal in the admission register and in the register of daily attendance. He shall record also that a pupil has left the school when such pupil has been absent for any period of sixty-five consecutive school days. Such pupils shall forthwith be considered as ceasing to belong to the school, and in any computation of average attendance for any period thereafter their names shall not be taken into account in any way.

5. The head-teacher of each school shall, as soon as possible after the end of each quarter, transmit to the Education Board of the district a return exhibiting, in the form hereinafter prescribed, the state of the school roll and of the attendance for such quarter.

6. The form of quarterly return of attendance from each school shall be as follows:—

Return of Attendance for Quarter ending , 190 .
(N.B.—This return should be sent in to the Board within five days after the end of the quarter.)

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