force at the date of the coming into operation of this Order, and in lieu thereof
both make the regulations set forth in Schedule A hereto; and further
both hereby amend the regulations in force regarding organizing teachers
and model country schools as set out in Schedule B hereto; and, with the
like advice and consent, both prescribe that, except where expressly stated
to the contrary, this Order shall be deemed to have been in operation
from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

SCHEDULE A.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS: SALARIES, GRADING, STAFFING, HOUSE
ALLOWANCES, ETC.

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 1 or above Standard 2, 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 1 or above Standard 2, 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 1
   or not higher than Standard 2:
   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 4 or up to an age not higher than
   eleven years:
   A “main school” is a school to which a side school is so attached:
   One school is attached to another within the foregoing provisions
   when they have the same head teacher:
   A “part-time school” is one of a group of two or more schools taught
   by the same sole teacher, each school being situated at least three
   miles by the nearest practicable means of access from any other
   school of the same group, all the schools being open for not less
   than twenty hours a week in the aggregate:
   A “relieving teacher” means a teacher employed as locum tenens
   for a teacher granted leave of absence, or a teacher appointed
   under subsection (3) of section 72 of the Act pending the appointment
   of a permanent teacher, or a teacher re-employed while
   receiving a superannuation allowance, or a teacher from another
   country employed in New Zealand under the Exchange of Teachers
   Regulations:
   The term “temporary teacher” means a teacher temporarily
   appointed under the provisions of subsection (1) of section 71 of
   the Act until a teacher who is the holder of a teacher’s certificate
   or a license to teach can be obtained, or a teacher appointed
   temporarily to any position on probation:
   The term “relieving position” or the term “temporary position”
   means the position in which a relieving teacher or a temporary
   teacher respectively is for the time being employed.
   A “student-assistant” is a teacher who, after completing a course of
   one or two years at a training college, is attached to the staff of a
   public school for a period not in general exceeding one year.

2. If any dispute or difficulty arises respecting the meaning or effect
   of any clause of the regulations named in the preamble hereto, such
   dispute or difficulty shall be submitted to the Minister, whose decision
   thereon shall be final and conclusive.

3. Where the salary or allowance attached to any position is altered
   by this Order the salary and allowances payable under these regulations
   from the date of such alteration shall be determined by the Director, provided
   that the total amount payable in salary and allowances to any teacher
   who occupies a permanent position shall not, so long as he remains in the
   same position, be less than the total amount received in salary and allowances
   immediately prior to such date. The Director shall also determine all questions
   which may arise regarding the assignment of positions of assistants on
   the staffs of schools under these regulations.

4. Position Salary.—(1.) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained,
   the salaries payable to teachers holding permanent positions in public