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apply in so far as they are not inconsistent therewith or are not specifically suspended by these regulations.

2. (1.) Where at any time during the continuance of these regulations it becomes necessary for an Education Board to appoint a teacher as locum tenens for a teacher on military service or for any other teacher on leave of absence, or where in any case an Education Board is of opinion that it is not expedient to make a permanent appointment, the Education Board shall appoint as a temporary teacher such person as it thinks fit, whether such person is a certificated teacher or a teacher holding a license to teach or not, and all such appointments shall be made subject to the conditions hereinafter prescribed.

(2.) (a.) An appointment under this section may be made for a fixed period, which period may be extended from time to time, or may be made for an indefinite period, terminable either by the Board or by the person holding the appointment by one month’s notice in writing, or by such lesser period of notice as may be agreed on by the Board and such person; provided that if the appointment is that of locum tenens for a teacher on leave of absence the Board may make the appointment on the condition that it shall be terminable forthwith on the teacher on leave reporting for duty.

(b.) No such appointment shall continue for more than six months after the termination of the present war.

(c.) If a teacher holds a permanent position under the Education Act, 1914, and accepts appointment to another position as temporary teacher under these regulations with leave of absence from his permanent position, he shall not be regarded as having thereby vacated his former permanent position unless he resigns from such permanent position, but no payment by way of salary shall be made to him at any time in respect of more than one position.

(3.) If any person appointed under these regulations who is the holder of a teacher’s certificate or of a license to teach continues in the service of the Board for more than three months after the date of his appointment, he shall be entitled to become a contributor to the Teachers’ Superannuation Fund as from the date of his appointment, on the conditions prescribed by section 23 of the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment Act, 1908, as if he were then first permanently employed in the Education service, and shall, for the purpose of computing the benefits to which he may thereafter become entitled from that fund, be entitled to count the whole period of his temporary service under this section.

(4.) The provisions of subsection (9) of section 79 of the Education Act, 1914, shall not apply to persons appointed as temporary teachers under these regulations, and persons so appointed shall receive, subject to the provisions of subsection (5) hereof, such salaries as the Board may determine:

Provided that in no case shall the salary payable to any such teacher be greater than the salary to which he would be entitled under the Education Act, 1914, if he were permanently appointed to the position to which he has been temporarily appointed.

(5.) All salaries payable under these regulations shall be subject to revision by the Minister of Education, who, in view of all the circumstances, may decide that a different rate of salary, not being a rate of salary in excess of the rate of salary payable under the Education Act, 1914, shall be paid in any particular case, and any such decision of the Minister shall be binding on the Board.

(6.) The provisions of this section shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to all temporary appointments of Native-school teachers, and in all such cases the words “Public Service Commissioner” shall be read for the words “Education Board” or the word “Board” wherever these words occur in the regulations.

(7.) The provisions of subclauses (5) and (6) hereof shall not be taken to prejudice the right of the Minister of Education to authorize the payment of an allowance in addition to salary as provided in clause 9 hereof.

3. (1.) It shall be lawful for an Education Board to appoint permanently to any vacant position in a public school any person, being the holder of a teacher’s certificate or a license to teach, who is for the time being a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, whether he has applied for any such position or not.

(2.) In regard to any such appointment the following provisions shall apply:—