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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 15

EQUIVALENT STATUS.

12. A certificate shall not be granted except after examination held in accordance with these regulations, or after proof of the passing of an equivalent examination held by some sufficient public authority; provided that a partially equivalent examination may be recognized pro tanto, and supplemented by such further examination as may be deemed necessary by the Inspector-General of Schools, who shall be the judge of the value to be assigned to examinations proposed for acceptance as equivalent or partially equivalent.

13. Anything in the preceding clause notwithstanding, a teacher holding a teacher’s certificate issued by a recognized public authority outside the Dominion may, subject to the provisions of clause 11, be granted an equivalent status, if the Inspector-General of Schools is satisfied of the sufficiency of the qualification. In any such case, until the evidence submitted is confirmed, on reference to the public authority concerned, a classification so granted shall be deemed to be provisional only, and may at any time be revoked.

14. For a certificate granted under either of the two last preceding clauses, on the ground of having passed an examination of equivalent value, or of holding an equivalent certificate elsewhere obtained, a fee of one pound sterling is payable in the manner notified in clause 18 hereof for the payment of examination entrance fees.

TRAINING COLLEGE CERTIFICATE.

15. Nothing in these regulations shall be taken to forbid the issue of a teacher’s certificate at the close of an approved course in a training college to a duly qualified person who, being regularly admitted as a student of Division A or of Division B in accordance with the regulations relating to training colleges for the time being in force, has satisfied all the requirements of the course of training prescribed, and has served as a teacher for the necessary period as required for classification under clauses 5 and 6 hereof.

On the issue of any such certificate a fee of one pound shall be payable in the manner prescribed in clause 18 hereof.

DATE OF EXAMINATION.

16. An examination for the two Classes D and C shall be held every year in the month of January, beginning not earlier than the fifth day of the month, and ending, if possible, not later than the eighteenth day of the month.

EXAMINATION CENTRES.

17. The examination shall be held at the chief town of each education district, and at such other places in the Dominion as the Inspector-General shall from year to year recognize as suitable and desirable as centres of examination.

Any place at which there are ten or more candidates to be examined may be made an examination centre, and a place where there are fewer than ten candidates may be made a centre, if the candidates by additional payments make up the total payments to a sum of ten pounds: Provided that no place shall be recognized as a centre unless it is found that thoroughly satisfactory arrangements can be made thereat for the conduct of the examination.

NOTICE OF CANDIDATURE: ENTRANCE FEE AND LATE FEE.

18. Every candidate must give notice of his wish to be examined, the notice being given on a form of application provided for that purpose, and procurable at the office of any Education Board. The notice must be sent so as to reach the office of the Education Department, Wellington, not later than the fifteenth day of October next before the examination, and must be accompanied by a receipt for the payment of the amount of the entrance fee as hereinafter prescribed to the Public Account of some branch of the Bank of New Zealand. (See clauses 33, 48.)

19. Candidates shall, at the time of making application to be examined, say at which centre they wish to present themselves. They may afterwards, up to the thirty-first day of October, elect to be examined at some other centre upon payment of an additional fee of ten shillings.

20. Notwithstanding anything contained in clause 18 hereof, a candidate’s notice and application to be examined may be received between the fifteenth and the thirty-first day of October, if it is