APRIL 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 909

Education Act, 1914.—Amended Regulations.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 30th day of March, 1926.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Education Act, 1914, and the amendments of that Act, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, 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 revoke the regulations at present in force relating to the grading of primary-school teachers, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

SCHEDULE.

THE GRADING OF PRIMARY-SCHOOL TEACHERS.

1. THE Director of Education (hereinafter referred to as “the Director”) shall, by and through the Inspectors of the Department, proceed annually to grade in accordance with the regulations herein contained the certificated teachers employed in public schools.

2. (i.) The Inspectors of each education district acting together shall in accordance with these regulations assign grading marks to all the certificated teachers employed in the public schools by the Education Board of the district on the 31st day of December preceding, and shall, through the Senior Inspector of the district, forward such grading marks to the Director.

(ii.) Training-college students shall be assigned grading marks in the first place by the Principal of the training college which they have attended.

3. (i.) Certificated teachers who are not in the employment of an Education Board on the 31st day of December in any year but who were included in the grading list then current may be graded in the following year, but if not so employed during that year they may be graded in any subsequent year only on application to the Director.

(ii.) Any teacher in the service of an Education Board or any training-college student who for the first time becomes certificated after the graded list is completed shall be entitled to be graded forthwith as from the date on which his certificate is issued.

(iii.) Certificated teachers who are for the time being employed in technical schools, secondary schools, or private registered schools, or in Western Samoa or the Cook Islands, or in Native schools and special schools under the Education Department, may be awarded grading marks by the Inspector or Inspectors instructed thereto by the Director; but the grading of any such teacher shall have effect only in respect of any subsequent employment or application for employment of the teacher in the service of an Education Board.

4. Teachers entitled to be graded shall be graded in six groups as follows, according to the salary paid under Schedule IV in clause 4 of the Regulations for the Salaries of Public-school Teachers on the last day of employment in the preceding year or on the last day of December in that year, as the case may be:—

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