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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

those who desire to be examined in either branch must be prepared
on receiving due notice to present themselves accordingly.

50. Candidates who take Elementary Handwork as part of the
    ordinary certificate examination are required to include the sub-
    ject or subjects selected in the application to be examined for
    which provision is made in clause 18 of the regulations, but the
    examination may also be taken independently either by candidates
    for teachers’ certificates or by others. In the latter case appli-
    cations, accompanied by the amount of the entrance fee, should be
    lodged in good time with the Secretary of the Education Board.
    For the examination so taken an entrance fee of five shillings for
    each subject or subject-group is payable by the candidate, except
    in the case of pupil-teachers or probationers at the time of examina-
    tion in actual employment by an Education Board, for whom no
    entrance fee for a subject of Elementary Handwork is required.

51. Candidates who satisfy the requirements in both branches
    of Elementary Handwork as defined in clause 59, paragraphs (30)
    and (31) for the Class D (or Class C) examination shall be entitled
    to receive a special certificate therein, whether their attainments
    in the subjects included be reckoned among the grounds on which
    a teacher’s certificate is issued to them or not. In lieu of such
    special certificate candidates may, however, if they so desire, have
    their success in Elementary Handwork specially endorsed on the
    teacher’s certificate already held by them.

SPECIAL CERTIFICATES FOR TEACHERS OF DEAF-MUTE, BLIND, OR
MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.

52. On such terms as the Minister of Education may from time
    to time determine, special certificates of competency in the method
    and practice of teaching deaf-mute, blind, or mentally defective
    children may also be granted to properly trained persons in the
    service of the Dominion whether a general teacher’s certificate is
    held by them or not, or in lieu thereof an endorsement of the
    special training received may be made on a teacher’s certificate
    already held.

LICENSE TO TEACH.

53. A candidate that falls not far short of the examination
    requirements for a teacher’s certificate may, on the recommenda-
    tion of an Inspector of Schools, and subject to the conditions of
    clause 11 hereof as to evidence of character and health, receive a
    license to teach, provided that he has attained the age of twenty-
    one years, and has had not less than two years’ experience in
    teaching as defined in clauses 5 and 6 hereof. Such license shall be
    in force for a period of two years, to be regarded as expiring on the
    last day of June or the last day of December, as the case may be,
    next following the date on which the two years are completed, and
    shall during its currency have the force of a temporary certificate.

54. A candidate for a teacher’s certificate who has not yet
    attained the age of twenty-one years, but who satisfies in all other
    respects the requirements for a certificate under these regulations,
    may, if he has already attained the age of eighteen years, receive
    a license to teach, which license shall be renewable until he has
    attained the age of twenty-one years, and shall then, upon the
    production of such further evidence of continued good character as
    may be required, be convertible into a full certificate.

55. In the discretion of the Minister of Education, licenses to
    teach may, on further consideration of the circumstances in each
    case, be renewed at the close of the period for which they were
    originally granted; but a renewal will not, as a rule, be conceded
    unless a recommendation for a renewal has been made by an In-
    spector of Schools who has good means of forming an opinion of
    the holder’s services as a teacher. Candidates for the renewal
    of licenses to teach may be required to show that material progress
    has, since the issue of the license, been made by the holder towards
    the acquirement of a full certificate qualification. Any renewal of
    a license may be for the full term of two years or for any shorter
    term.

56. Upon the issue of a license to teach, and upon every renewal
    of a license, excepting such issue or renewal as may be made in
    accordance with the provisions of clause 54 hereof, a fee of ten
    shillings is payable to the Public Account in the manner specified
    in clause 18 of these regulations for the payment of examination
    entrance fees.