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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 109

Regulations under the Education Acts.—Staffs and Salaries.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of December, 1910.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1908, the Education Amendment Act, 1908, and the Education Amendment Act, 1910, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke all regulations heretofore made under the authority of the said Acts, or any Act thereby repealed, regarding staffs and salaries in public schools, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations hereto annexed; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

REGULATIONS.

STAFFS AND SALARIES.

1. (a.) For the purposes of the Education Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the principal Act”), and the Acts amending the same (hereinafter with the principal Act called “the Acts”), and of these regulations, the average attendance to be taken as the basis of computations for any school year shall, except where it is prescribed otherwise, be the average daily attendance for the year ended 31st December immediately preceding, called hereinafter “the yearly average attendance.” The yearly average attendance for any school or department thereof shall be found by adding together the average daily attendances thereat for the four quarters ending 31st December, as ascertained at the end of each quarter, and dividing the total by four; and for any district it shall be the total of the yearly average attendances of all the schools in such district; the result in each case shall be expressed as a whole number correct to the nearest unit, one-half being reckoned as a whole.

(b.) If the average attendance at any school or department thereof for any quarter is less than two-thirds of the average weekly roll-number for such quarter, or if there are 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 order to find 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 yearly average attendance thus found shall be in lieu of the yearly average attendance as defined in subclause (a) hereof. Only one such substitution can be made in any one year.

(c.) Further, for the average attendance of any two quarters a similar substitution, on the application of the Board, may, mutatis mutandis, be made in the case of any school or department thereof in regard to which it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister, on the certificate of the District Health Officer, that an infectious disease of an epidemic character has during the period or periods concerned been locally prevalent to the extent of affecting 10 per cent. or more of the children of school age.

2. (a.) On the 1st January in each year the schools in each education district shall be classified by the Board in the grades and subgrades named in Part I of the First Schedule to the Education Amendment Act, 1908, according to the yearly average attendance for each school for the year immediately preceding.