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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(iii.) 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. In any case under review a special report may be required.

(iv.) Any junior or senior free pupil who has forfeited his free place shall not be eligible for a free place of the same kind, junior or senior respectively, at any other secondary school or district high school or at a technical school, nor shall any pupil who for any reason has forfeited his free place at a technical school be eligible for a similar free place in a secondary school or a district high school.

15. (i.) Except as provided in clause 16 hereof, no free pupil shall be allowed to transfer his free place from a district high school to a secondary school, or vice versa, or from a secondary school or district high school to a technical school:

Provided that, in special cases, where it is shown to the Minister's satisfaction that the free pupil is unable to obtain at the secondary school or district high school he is attending instruction in the subjects required for the course of study he desires to follow, such free pupil may, with the consent of the Minister previously obtained, continue his free place for the unexpired period thereof at another school—namely, a secondary school, or a district high school, or a technical school:

Provided, further, that a junior or senior free pupil who leaves a secondary school or a district high school to take up employment at any time before the completion of the tenure of his free place shall be eligible to continue his free place at a technical school for the unexpired period thereof.

(ii.) A pupil who has completed his tenure of a junior or senior free place at a secondary school, or district high school, or technical school shall not be eligible to hold a similar free place—junior or senior, as the case may be—at any secondary school, district high school, or technical school.

16. (i.) 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 or technical school, and such secondary school, or district high school, or technical school shall admit him accordingly on the same terms as if he had remained at the first-named school.

(ii.) If any free pupil fails on account of illness to fulfil the conditions of his free place, or if any junior free pupil fails on account of illness to pass the examination or otherwise qualify for a senior free place, his free place may, with the approval of the Minister, be continued for another year. The fact of illness must be proved by evidence satisfactory to the Inspector-General of Schools.

17. Any pupil who has held a free place at a district high school or high school that has been disestablished by the Minister, or that for any other reason has ceased to exist, may continue to hold his free place at another secondary school, district high school, or technical school; and such secondary school, or district high school, or technical school shall admit him accordingly on the same terms as if he had remained at the first-named school; nevertheless, a secondary school may decline to admit such pupil, if he can attend a secondary school nearer his home.

18. 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.

It is expected that the programme of each free pupil shall not consist of a number of disconnected subjects, but of a group of subjects duly arranged in accordance with the pupil’s capacities, surroundings, and probable future calling, as far as that can be done with regard to the general circumstances of the school.

19. Free places under these regulations are not tenable with any other scholarships or free places, except as provided in clause 2, (a), or in clause 7, (a), hereof.

20. Nothing in these regulations shall affect the rights of any holders of scholarships or free places prior to the 31st March, 1908.

21. (a.) 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 provided by the Education Department.