Amended Regulations for Teachers' Salaries, &c., under the Education Act, 1914.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of January, 1922.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"), and the amendments of that Act, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke regulations in force at the making of this order relating to payments to Education Boards, salaries of public-school teachers, grading of public schools, staffing of public schools, temporary and relieving teachers, leave of absence, removal expenses of teachers and house allowances, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations set out in the Schedules I and II hereto, and doth hereby amend the regulations in force for Organizing Teachers for Training Colleges and for Supplementary Model Country Schools as set out in Schedules III, IV, and V hereto respectively; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the 1st day of February, 1922 (except as where otherwise stated).

SCHEDULE I.—PAYMENTS TO EDUCATION BOARDS.

1. THE grants payable to Education Boards in respect of incidental allowances to School Committees in accordance with paragraph (c) (iii) of subsection (1) of section 6 of the Education Act, 1914, as amended by section 3 of the Education Amendment Act, 1919, for any education district in any year shall be calculated on the yearly average attendance for the year immediately preceding; provided that in the case of a new school opened during the year payment shall be made on the average attendance for that year, and that in respect to every such new school and of every school closed during the year payment shall be made for every month during which the school was open not less than half the number of school days.

2. The sums payable to Boards under section 6 of the Act for the salaries and allowances of teachers, pupil-teachers, and probationers shall be paid to the Board in monthly instalments.

3. The moneys payable to the Boards for scholarships under sections 101 to 106 of the Act shall be paid to the Boards in quarterly instalments.

4. Any other moneys appropriated by Parliament as grants to the Boards shall be paid to the Boards in such proportions and at such times as shall be determined by the Minister.

5. Grants for special purposes shall be applied by Boards solely and exclusively to those purposes for which such grants have respectively been made, and the Minister may from time to time require from Boards statements showing in detail the application of any such special grants.

SCHEDULE II.—PUBLIC SCHOOLS: SALARIES, GRADING,
STAFFING, HOUSE ALLOWANCES, ETC.

GENERAL.

1. For the purposes of these regulations—
   A "mixed school" means a school to which all boys and girls of school age are admitted;

A "separate boys' school" means a school to which there are admitted boys belonging to any of the standard classes, or to any of the standard classes above Standard I or above Standard II, but no other pupils;

A "separate girls' school" means a school to which there are admitted girls belonging to any of the standard classes, or to any of the standard classes above Standard I or above Standard II, but no other pupils;

A "separate infants' school" means a school to which there are admitted all pupils belonging to classes not higher than Standard I or not higher than Standard II;

A "side school" is a school which is attached to another school and is distant more than a quarter of a mile, but not more than three miles, therefrom, and to which are admitted pupils up to a class not higher than Standard IV and up to an age not higher than eleven years: