Provided that in no case shall the total salaries and allowances payable

to the staff exceed by more than the amount of the salary of an assistant

of Grade 1, the total of which would have been payable had the modification

in staffing not been authorized.

37. Special Classes.--(1.) If a special class for children is established

under section 56 of the Act in connection with any public school, an

additional assistant of a grade not higher than Grade 2 may with the

precedent approval of the Minister be appointed to the staff of such school:

(2.) If such a class or classes are established as a separate school the staff

shall consist of such number and receive such salaries as the Minister shall

determine.

38. Male and Female Assistants.--Except in special cases approved by

the Director, the number of male assistants in any mixed school shall not

exceed the number of female assistants.

39. At least one of the first two assistants in any mixed school of

Grade IV, V, VI, or VII must be a woman. At least two of the first four and

three of the first six assistants in any mixed school of Grade VI or VII

must be women.

40. (1.) The position of first female assistant in every mixed school of

Grade IV or a higher grade shall be that of infant mistress.

(2.) For the purposes of this clause “infant mistress” means the

assistant teacher on the staff who has charge, subject to the control of the

headmaster, of the classes in the school not higher than Standard 1.

RELIEVING TEACHERS.

41. The Board may from time to time appoint suitable persons as

relieving teachers; but, unless under exceptional circumstances and with

the approval of the Senior Inspector, no assistant teacher holding a permanent appointment in any school may be appointed as a relieving assistant teacher in the same school.

42. Every teacher employed as a relieving teacher shall be classified

by the Senior Inspector of Schools in one of the grades specified in clause 43

hereof, but such classification may be revised at any time by the Inspector

or by the Director of Education.

43. (1.) The grades of relieving teachers and the salaries payable for

those grades respectively shall be as follows:--

Grade of Teacher.

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

Salary payable.

£

£

120-150

10

160-190

10

200-240

10

250-280

10

290-320

10

330-370

10

380-410

10

420 or over:

Provided that if the Senior Inspector is of opinion that the relieving

teacher should not be paid a salary of Grade A such teacher shall be paid

at such lower rate as he shall determine.

(2.) A relieving teacher who is classified in any grade in accordance

with clause 42 hereof shall be paid the minimum of the grade of salary

unless the Senior Inspector with the approval of the Director, shall approve

of a higher commencing salary within the grade.

44. A relieving teacher shall receive the annual increment specified in

subclause (1) of clause 43 hereof in the manner, mutatis mutandis, prescribed

in clause 15 of these regulations:

Provided that such teacher shall not receive an annual increment unless

his service in the year immediately preceding amounts in the aggregate to

at least six months.

45. A relieving teacher shall not be paid house allowance, married allowance, or the addition to salary provided in clause 5 hereof.

46. The salary of a relieving teacher shall be payable for the period

during which he is actually engaged in teaching together with the period

reasonably necessary to travel from and to his usual place of residence;

and the Board may also pay such teacher for any year ending 31st January for school holidays not exceeding one-fourth of the time of actual teaching during that year.

47. A relieving teacher who is obliged to live away from his usual place

of residence in order to occupy a relieving position shall be paid actual and

reasonable expenses of transit to and from the place in which he is so employed, and shall also, during the period of absence, be paid an allowance