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46. (a.) No combination of related subjects will be approved as a grouped course unless it occupies at least four hours a week and eighty hours a year. The total attendances at any approved course must be fairly distributed over the subjects of the course.

47. (b.) Where the hour-attendances of any student at an approved course are in any year less than sixty, capitation thereon will be paid at a uniform rate of 3d. per hour-attendance, in lieu of the rates specified in clause 46 hereof, provided that the conditions of clause 36 are complied with.

48. (c.) Where an approved course occupying at least six hours a week is so arranged as to provide for the systematic instruction of students for not more than two hours a week in one of the subjects named in paragraphs (1), (2), or (6) of clause 40, the class for such instruction may be reckoned as part of the course, and attendances thereat included in the claim for the course.

49. (d.) Not more than four hundred hours’ instruction in subjects included in any approved grouped course may be counted in respect of any student for the purposes of capitation in any year.

50. (e.) A syllabus showing the subject-matter of each proposed grouped course, and its distribution over the various years, being not more than two in the case of a course under Division I of clause 43 hereof, and not less than three in the case of courses under Divisions II to VI, inclusive, of the said clause, shall be submitted at the beginning of the year by the controlling authority for the approval of the Minister.

No material modification, such as the addition or omission of a course or of a subject in a course, will be recognized unless particulars thereof have previously been submitted for the approval of the Minister.

46. (f.) No new entrant shall be admitted to any stage of a grouped course unless he produces satisfactory evidence of fitness to profit by the instruction given in such course, nor shall a student be admitted to a higher from a lower stage of any course that he has taken unless he has made not less than sixty hour-attendances at the lower stage, and has obtained a certificate of satisfactory proficiency from the controlling authority or the managers, as the case may be. A list of the students (with their distinguishing numbers) promoted to a higher stage of any approved course in any year shall be forwarded to the Department at the time that the promotions are made.

III.—College Classes.

47. All the subjects in Divisions II, III, IV, V, and VI of clause 43 hereof may be recognized as subjects of technical instruction in college classes.

IV.—Regulations for the Appointment of Managers of Associated Classes.

50. For all other associated classes the number of managers to represent contributing bodies shall be fixed annually by the Minister, subject to these regulations and to the terms of section 182 of the Act. In estimating for the purposes of such representation the proportion of the cost of maintenance of classes borne by the several contributing bodies, there shall be included all moneys contributed during the year ending on the last day of December preceding the month in which the elections are held, and all rents and benefits derived during the same period from lands and buildings contributed, and from endowments, or otherwise used or employed for the purpose of such classes. The managers shall be elected at specially convened meetings of the several bodies concerned during the month of January, or February, or March in each year. The controlling authority shall, within fourteen days after the completion of the election, forward to the Minister a notification of the names of the managers elected, with the names of one or more persons authorized to pay and to receive moneys on their behalf.

51. In any case in which an election of managers as hereinbefore provided has not been held, the Minister, if he is satisfied that the failure to elect is not due to any default on the part of any controlling authority or the subscribers or trustees, as the case may be, may fix a time and place for the election of managers, and the provisions of clauses 49 and 50 shall thereupon be observed as if the time and place for such election had been fixed as therein provided. Pending the completion of such election the managers previously elected shall continue to hold office.

V.—Grants in Aid of Buildings, Fittings, Furniture, and Permanent Apparatus.

63. Application for grants in aid of buildings must be made by the controlling authority and in the following form, copies of which will be supplied by the Department :—