2. The head teacher of every registered school shall keep a register of
   attendance in the form provided by the Department, and all the teachers
   in the school shall assist in keeping the register and in making up weekly
   and quarterly summaries of attendance.

3. The attendance of scholars in every school shall be registered every
   morning and every afternoon; provided that in no case shall the register
   be marked later than one hour and a half before the close of morning or
   afternoon school, as the case may be. The register shall be marked and kept
   in accordance with the directions printed thereon.

4. The attendance of a child at morning school shall be reckoned as
   one attendance, and the attendance of a child at afternoon school shall
   be reckoned as one attendance, and a school open in the morning and open
   in the afternoon shall be deemed to have been open twice. The school
   shall be held to be open any morning or afternoon if at least one child is
   present before the first half-hour of the ordinary school time has passed.
   The average attendance for any quarter or any lesser period shall be
   ascertained by first throwing out of account what shall be called “excepted”
   half-days—that is, every morning and every afternoon on which the attend-
   ances have numbered less than one-half of the number of pupils belonging
   at the time to the school—and by throwing out of account the attend-
   ances also of every such morning and such afternoon, and then by dividing
   the remaining number of attendances by the remaining number of half-
   days.

5. If any child whose name is entered upon the register of attendance
   of any school shall be duly attending at an examination conducted by the
   Department, or the Education Board, or the University of New Zealand,
   or at a recognized class for manual instruction, then the time necessarily
   spent by such child at such examination or class, or in travelling thereto,
   shall be reckoned as time spent in attendance at such school; and the
   head teacher thereat, upon receipt of a certificate under the hand of the
   Secretary to the Education Board or upon being otherwise sufficiently
   satisfied as to the number of half-day attendances to be recorded for such
   child on account of such examination or class as aforesaid, shall add the
   total of such attendances to the total of those previously entered in the
   register of attendance belonging to the said school. Every such certificate
   when received shall be fastened into the said register, and shall not be
   removed.

6. On the day on which the head teacher of a school first knows that a
   pupil has been definitely removed from his school, such head teacher shall
   record the removal in the admission register and in the register of daily
   attendance. He shall record also that a pupil has left the school when such
   pupil has been absent for any period of sixty-five consecutive school days.
   Such pupils shall forthwith be considered as ceasing to belong to the school,
   and in any computation of average attendance for any period thereafter
   their names shall not be taken into account in any way.

7. The head teacher of every school shall, as soon as possible after the
   end of each quarter, send to the Education Board, on the form provided
   by the Department, a return of attendance for such school for the quarter.

8. The Education Board of each district shall send to the Director of
   Education, as soon as possible after the end of each quarter, on the form
   provided by the Department, a statement of the quarterly attendances for
   all the schools in the district.

II. Average Attendance.

9. The yearly average attendance for any school or department thereof
   shall be the mean of the quarterly average attendances thereat for the four
   quarters ending 31st December:

Provided that if the average attendance at any school or department
for any one quarter is such as to make the yearly average attendance less
than the minimum of the grade or subgrade in which the school or depart-
ment would be placed if it were graded on the mean of the quarterly
average attendances for the other three quarters of the year, then the mean
of such last-named three quarterly average attendances shall be deemed to
be the yearly average attendance for such school or department.

Provided further that if 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 one or two quarters been locally prevalent
to the extent of affecting 10 per cent. or more of the children in any school
or department, then the mean of the quarterly average attendance for the
remaining three or two quarters of the year shall be deemed to be the yearly
average attendance for such school or department.