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103. Any free pupil whose parents after his admission to the technical school or class shall remove more than five miles from the school or class attended may continue to hold his free place for the unexpired period thereof at any other technical school or class, or at a secondary school, or district high school.

104. A pupil who has completed his tenure of a junior or senior free place at a technical school or class shall not be eligible for a similar free place, junior or senior, as the case may be, at any other technical school or class, or at a secondary school, or district high school.

Nothing in this clause shall be taken to mean that a pupil who has qualified for but has not entered upon a senior free place while attending a technical school shall not be eligible to enter on a senior free place at another school being a technical school, a secondary school, or a district high school.

105. If any free pupil fails on account of illness to comply with the conditions of his free place, or if any junior free pupil fails on account of illness to pass the examination or otherwise qualify for a senior free place, his free place may, with the approval of the Minister, be continued for another year, provided that the limit of age stated in clause 82 hereof is not thereby exceeded. The fact of illness must be proved by evidence satisfactory to the Minister of Education.

106. The controlling authority or the Technical School Board, as the case may be, shall cause record-cards to be kept on the forms provided or approved by the Education Department showing such information with respect to the course pursued and the progress made by each free pupil as may be required. A free pupil who is entitled to a transfer under these regulations shall be given his record-card duly filled up and signed, and no such pupil shall be admitted to a free place at a technical school or class, or at a secondary school, or district high school, until he produces his record-card. A record-card duly completed so as to form a certificate should be given to every pupil who has satisfactorily completed his course as the holder of a junior or senior free place, and such certificate must accompany every application for the transfer of a free place under the first proviso to clause 102, and may be required in connection with the award of senior free places under clause 84 and 94 hereof.

107. As soon as possible after the commencement of the instruction for the year the controlling authority shall forward, on forms provided by the Education Department, a return of all free pupils admitted to or in attendance at classes. No payment shall be made on account of any free pupils not included in such return.

108. Free railway tickets will be granted where necessary to holders of junior or senior free places.

IX. TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLS.

109. A technical high school shall be held to provide free places within the meaning of section 97 of the Education Act, 1914, if, in accordance with that Act and these regulations, it admits to such free places all qualified pupils who wish to attend such technical high school: Provided that if any pupil is resident outside the education district in which the technical high school is situated the school may admit or may refuse to admit such pupil to a free place.

110. The classes at a technical high school shall conform to the regulations for technical classes other than classes at a technical high school where such regulations are applicable.

111. A technical high school shall provide organized courses of instruction in accordance with clauses 83 and 87 hereof. All the subjects of a course must, as a rule, be taken by all the pupils admitted to such course.

112. There shall be made to the controlling authority, if the conditions contained in these regulations are complied with, an annual payment of £100 where the number of pupils in respect of whom grants are payable under these regulations is not less than forty, or of £50 where the number of such pupils is less than forty, and in addition an annual grant at the rate of £13 10s. for each free pupil taking a full course of instruction as approved, and making thereat not less than 800 hour-attendances during the year; and at the rate of £8 10s. for each pupil other than a free pupil taking a full course of instruction as approved and making thereat not less than 800 hour-attendances during the year: Provided that in the latter case the fee charged for admission to a full course of instruction as approved shall not exceed £5 per annum.

113. If a pupil completes less than 800 but not less than 600 hours’ instruction in the year at an approved course, payment may be made at three-fourths of the rate mentioned in clause 112 hereof.

If a pupil attends an approved course for a certain period, but is precluded from completing 600 hours’ attendance a year owing to a