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(iii.) Has satisfied the examination requirements for an Education Board Senior Scholarship, or any other scholarship that the Minister approves for this purpose.

A senior free place at special, associated, or college classes other than classes at a day technical school is tenable by any pupil who satisfies conditions (ii) and (iii) hereof.

77. (h.) A senior free place is tenable for three continuous years from the 1st January preceding the actual date of admission as a free pupil; but if special merit is shown, the Minister may, on the receipt of a recommendation from the controlling authority or the managers, as the case may be, and from the Inspector-General of Schools, extend the tenure of the free place for a fourth year. In no case, however, shall a senior free place at a day technical school be tenable after the holder has passed his nineteenth birthday.

78. (j.) The day technical school shall give to each holder of a senior free place under these regulations regular instruction at a grouped course approved by the Minister under clause 43 of these regulations. The instruction must be of a more advanced character than that given to holders of junior free places. Not less than twenty hours’ instruction a week must be given regularly throughout the year.

79. (k.) Every holder of a senior free place under these regulations who is admitted to special, associated, or college classes other than classes at a day technical school must attend in each year recognized classes in two or more related subjects selected from Divisions II to VI, inclusive, of clause 43 hereof. The instruction must be of a more advanced character than that given to holders of junior free places.

80. (l.) Subject to these regulations, a payment of 3d. for each hour-attendance, in addition to the capitation payable under the Act, may be made to the controlling authority of classes under the Act other than classes at a day technical school on account of each senior free pupil admitted to such classes: Provided that no such payment shall be made on account of a free pupil for any class for which he has made less than twenty hour-attendances during the year: Provided, further, that under this clause not more than £5 shall be paid on account of any one free pupil in each year.

General.

77. (m.) As a condition of admission to a free place any candidate may be required to furnish to the director of the technical school to which admission is sought, reasonable evidence of good character.

78. (n.) (i.) Except as hereinafter provided or as the Minister may direct, any intermission of attendance exceeding a period of three months in duration shall be deemed to determine the free place. Further, the free place held by a pupil at a day technical school whose attendance during any term or quarter falls below 50 per cent. of the possible total of attendance at the school shall, with a similar exception, be deemed to have lapsed as at the close of the period specified. And, further, the free place held by a pupil at recognized classes other than classes at a day technical school who fails to make in any year of his tenure the minimum number of hour-attendances at each of the classes as prescribed in clauses 77 (j) and 77 (l) hereof shall, with a similar exception, be deemed to have lapsed at the close of the period specified.

(ii.) If on a report from the controlling authority or from the Inspector-General of Schools it appears 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 that pupil shall cease at the end of the term or quarter in which such report is received. In any case under review a special report may be required.

(iii.) Any junior or senior free pupil who has forfeited or has completed the tenure of his free place shall not be eligible for a free place of the same grade at any other technical school, any secondary school, or any district high school, nor shall any pupil who for any reason has forfeited his free place or who has completed the tenure thereof at a secondary school or district high school be eligible for a similar free place at a technical school.

77. (o.) (i.) A junior or senior free pupil who leaves a day technical 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 recognized technical classes other than classes at a day technical school for the unexpired period thereof.

(ii.) Any holder of a free place who after his admission to a technical school removes more than five miles from the technical school at which his free place is held may continue to hold his free place at any other technical school or at a secondary school, or at a district high school, subject to the