THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Regulations relating to Teachers Incorporation and Court of Appeal.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1916.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him
by the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”),
His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of
Part XI of the said Act (relating to Teachers Incorporation and Court of
Appeal); and, with the like advice and consent, doth hereby declare that
this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof
in the New Zealand Gazette, whereupon all previous regulations upon the
same subject shall be deemed to be revoked.

REGULATIONS.
(1.) INCORPORATION OF TEACHERS.

1. APPLICATION for registration may be made in the form numbered 1 in
   the Schedule hereto.
2. The certificate of incorporation may be in the form numbered 2 in
   the Schedule hereto.
3. The returns referred to in section 144 of the said Act shall be made
   once in every year, and shall be as follows:—
   (a.) The full names of all the members and officers of the society
   (specifying the office held by each officer).
   (b.) A copy of the annual report of the society, including its annual
   statement of accounts.
   (c.) A copy of the rules of the society.
   (d.) A statement of the cases of appeal in which the society intervened
   during the year to which its annual report relates.
4. Such returns shall be certified as correct under the hand of the
   secretary, president, or chairman of the society, and shall be forwarded
   to the Registrar within three months after the date to which they are
   made up.

(2.) PRELIMINARY PROCEDURE ON APPEAL.

5. (a.) The appellant's notice of appeal given pursuant to section 149
   of the said Act shall be forwarded to the Education Board of the district,
   and shall be in the form numbered 3 in the Schedule hereto.
   (b.) Such notice shall briefly but clearly state the grounds of appeal.
   (c.) Such notice shall be void unless it contains a memorandum by a
   society of teachers incorporated under Part XI of the said Act, or by the
   New Zealand Educational Institute, nominating, in accordance with sec-
   tion 148 thereof, a member of the Court, with his consent in writing, for
   the purposes of the appeal, and undertaking to pay whatever costs may be
   awarded against the appellant.
   (d.) Such undertaking shall be given under the common seal of the
   corporation and the hands of two of its officers, and when so given shall
   bind the corporation.
   (e.) The appellant shall forward to the Minister a copy of the notice of
   appeal.
6. (a.) The Board shall, within ten days after service of the notice of
   appeal, serve on the appellant, at the registered office of the aforesaid
   corporation, a statement in reply, in the form numbered 4 in the Schedule
   hereto, setting forth briefly but clearly the reasons for the dismissal,
   suspension, or transfer, and the Board's answer to the notice of appeal, and
   nominating a member of the Court, with his consent in writing, for the
   purposes of the appeal.
   (b.) Such statement in reply may be prepared and served by the
   Chairman or any two members of the Board without convening a meeting
   of the Board.
7. Such notice of appeal and statement in reply shall form the case on
   appeal, and the Board shall, within ten days after service on it of the notice
   of appeal, forward to the Minister a copy thereof.
8. Upon receipt of such copy if forwarded, or if not, then upon the
   expiration of the period within which it should have been forwarded, the
   Minister shall appoint as Chairman of the Court of Appeal a Magistrate
   exercising jurisdiction in the district wherein the appellant teacher was