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case of any pupil who is obliged to live away from home in order to attend the secondary school, or than £10 per annum in any other case ; or

(b.) Who, being not over sixteen years of age on the 1st December preceding, has passed the Civil Service Junior Examination or the special examination for senior free places, or has qualified for an Education Board Senior Scholarship ; or

(c.) Who, whether under sixteen or not, has passed the Civil Service Junior Examination with credit, or has passed the Matriculation Examination.

8. The secondary school shall admit any free pupil qualified under paragraph (a), (b), or (c) of clause 7 hereof, unless such pupil can attend a secondary school nearer his home.

9. Every district high school shall admit as a senior free pupil any pupil qualified under paragraph (a), (b), or (c) of clause 7 hereof.

10. A senior free place at a secondary school or district high school is tenable until the holder has reached his nineteenth birthday, but no longer.

General.

11. Every candidate for admission to a free place may be required to furnish to the governing body of the secondary school reasonable evidence that he is of good character.

12. Notwithstanding the foregoing regulations, the secondary school shall not be required to admit pupils to free places at any other time than the beginning of the school year, unless it shall seem expedient to the governing body of the secondary school to admit such pupils at any other time ; nor shall the secondary school be required to admit to free places, except under paragraph (a) of clause 2, or under paragraph (a) of clause 7, any one who was on the books of the secondary school prior to the date hereof.

13. In case there shall not be sufficient accommodation at the secondary school for all pupils seeking admission, those qualified under paragraph (a) of section 2, and under paragraph (a) of section 7 hereof shall first be admitted, then those qualified under paragraph (b) of clause 2 and paragraph (b) of clause 7 in order of merit, and then the remaining applicants, whether free pupils or otherwise, in the order in which their applications for admission, made within the preceding twelve months, were received by the governing body of the secondary school.

14. If, on a report from the governing body of the secondary school or from the Inspector-General of Schools, it shall appear to the Minister that the attendance, conduct, diligence, or progress of any free pupil is not satisfactory, the Minister may determine that the free place held by such pupil shall cease at the end of the quarter in which such report is received.

15. Any free pupil whose parents, after his admission to the secondary school or district high school, shall remove more than five miles from the school at which his free place is held may continue to hold his free place at any secondary school nearer his home, or at any district high school, and such secondary school or district high school shall admit him accordingly on the same terms as if he had remained at the first-named school.

16. For the purpose of these regulations a qualified pupil under the regulations for district high schools who has been in attendance at a district high school that has been disestablished with a view to the establishment of a high school under section 88 of the Act shall be held to have been the holder of a free place at such high school.

17. The programme of each free pupil under these regulations shall be determined by the principal of the school after consultation with the parent or guardian of the pupil ; provided that no such pupil shall be compelled to take Latin or to take more than one language besides English.

18. Free places under these regulations are not tenable with any other scholarships or free places, except as provided in clause 2, (a), hereof.

19. Nothing in these regulations shall affect the rights of any holders of scholarships or free places prior to the 31st December, 1905.

20. Payments of the grant under section 87 of the Act shall be made at the end of each term or quarter of the secondary school, claims being made on forms supplied by the Education Department.

Return of Net Annual Income derived from Endowments.

21. Every secondary school shall send to the Minister of Education, in the month of January or February in each year, on forms supplied by the Education Department, a return of its net annual income derived from endowments as defined by the Act.