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29. For the purpose of determining the grade of a school to which one or more side schools are attached, the main school and the side school or schools attached thereto shall be deemed to form one school.

30. In ascertaining the grade of a group of part-time schools the group of schools shall be treated as one school, and the average attendance shall be the combined average attendance of the group.

31. This Part of these regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of February, 1920.

PART III.—STAFFING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

32. (1.) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, the number of teachers and of pupil-teachers in any school other than a district high school, and in the primary department of a district high school, shall be the number shown in columns 3, 4, and 6 of Schedules I and II of clause 1 hereof for the average attendance shown in column 1 of the said schedules.

(2.) In every school of Grade VII one assistant shall be added for each succeeding subgrade above Grade VIIA, but in all other respects the staff in every such school shall be the same as in a school of Grade VIIA.

(3.) The number of teachers in the secondary department of a district high school shall be the number shown in column 3 of Schedule III of clause 1 hereof for the average attendance shown in column 1 of that schedule.

(4.) In every secondary department of a district high school one assistant shall be added for each succeeding grade above Grade J, but in all other respects the staff shall be the same as in a secondary department of Grade J.

(5.) On the first February in each year the Board shall determine the number of teachers and of pupil-teachers aforesaid in accordance with the yearly average attendance for the year ended 31st December immediately preceding.

33. (1.) If at the beginning of any quarter it appears that the attendance in any school other than a district high school, or in the primary department or secondary department of any district high school, has increased so that the mean of the quarterly average attendance for the four quarters, or the three quarters, or the two quarters, or for the quarter immediately preceding, is, in the case of any such school or primary department, as high as that shown in column 2, or column 3, or column 4, or column 5, respectively, of Table A hereto, or in the case of a secondary department as high as that shown in column 2, or column 3, or column 4, or column 5, respectively, of Table B hereto, the Board may, in the case of any such school or primary department, make such addition to the staff as is required to bring the number of teachers and of pupil-teachers for that quarter up to the number prescribed for a school having the average attendance shown in column 6 of Table A; or, in the case of any such secondary department, such addition to the staff as is required to bring the number of teachers in the secondary department for that quarter up to the number prescribed for a secondary department having the average attendance shown in column 6 of Table B: Provided that in any special case of increasing attendance which appears to be not equitably provided for herein the Board may, with the precedent approval of the Minister, increase the staff of any school or department at an earlier date than that in which an increase would otherwise be authorized under this subclause.

TABLE A.

Showing Increase in Quarterly Average Attendance upon which the Staff of a School may be increased.

B