REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations--
   "The Act" means the Education Act, 1914, and includes the amendments thereof and all regulations lawfully made thereunder and for the time being in force:

"Combined school" means any secondary school or schools and any technical school or schools combined by Order in Council and placed under a single governing body pursuant to section 2 of the Education Amendment Act, 1924, as amended by section 37 of the Finance Act (No. 2), 1931:

"The Board" means the governing body, however described, of the combined school.

2. The following clauses of the Regulations for Manual and Technical Instruction, made under the Education Act, 1914, and its amendments, shall apply in the case of combined schools as if they were technical high schools:—

Part II, clauses 5-16 inclusive : Provided that in clause 16 for the words "Clauses 6B and 10 (ii)" there shall be substituted "Clauses 6A or 6B, and 10 (i) or 10 (ii)": Provided further that every holder of a junior free place shall take not less than 1½ units of manual training, including drawing, in each year.

Part IIIc, clauses 31-37 inclusive : Provided that in the case of a combined school the Board shall be the controlling authority thereof.

Part IIID, clauses 38-48 inclusive : Provided that from the total amount payable under clause 38 there shall be further deducted the net annual income derived by the Board from endowments, as determined in accordance with clause 86 of the Act.

Part IVA, clauses 49-66 inclusive.

Part IVc, clauses 73-76 inclusive : Provided that if the Minister does not approve of the candidate selected by the Board for appointment as Principal he shall notify the Board of his non-approval, and the Board shall thereupon select another applicant and submit his name to the Minister for approval. Upon receipt of notification of the Minister’s approval the Board shall make the appointment accordingly. If no appointment of a Principal has been made in accordance with the foregoing proviso within three months after the date on which the Board’s first selection was submitted to the Minister, the Minister may either direct that the position shall be re-advertised, in which case the procedure shall be that prescribed in clause 73 aforesaid and the foregoing proviso, or he may himself select and appoint one of the applicants, and notify the Board of such selection and appointment.

Part IVD, subclause (iii) and subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (g) of subclause (iv) of clause 77.

Clauses 78-83 inclusive.

Part IVE, clauses 84-89 inclusive.

3. All assistant teachers in combined schools shall be classified in accordance with clauses 1 to 9 inclusive of the Regulations for the Staffing of Secondary Schools, made under the Education Act, 1914, and its amendments, provided that for the words "Inspectors of Secondary Schools" in subclause (1) of clause 1 thereof there shall be substituted the words "Inspectors concerned with the inspection of combined schools," and/or in accordance with clauses 67–72 inclusive of the Regulations for Manual and Technical Instruction, made under the Education Act, 1914, and its amendments, provided that in clause 67 thereof for the words, "Concerned with the inspection of Technical Schools and Manual Training Classes" there shall be substituted the words, "Concerned with the inspection of combined schools."

4. Clauses 16 and 17 (1), (2), and (4) of the regulations for secondary schools, made under the Education Act, 1914, and its amendments, shall apply in the case of combined schools as if they were secondary schools, provided that the grade of the combined school shall be determined in accordance with Schedule I of clause 11 of the aforesaid regulations for secondary schools by the number of full-time assistant teachers which is equal to the equivalent full-time staff of the combined school. The equivalent full-time staff of a combined school shall be determined by dividing by ten the total number of weekly half-days of teaching performed by assistants in day and evening classes.

5. Combined schools shall be inspected from time to time by officers of the Department deputed thereto by the Director.

6. The provisions of the Finance Act, 1931, shall apply to the staffs of combined schools.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.