LIABILITY DECIDED
IN CASE OF SCHOOL FIRE. What is the liability cf a school committee should a school buildinf be burnt down when being used or after having been used for social purposes? 1 be Education Board were notified bv the Lepartnient yesterday that :he Crown Law Office had advised that section 49 (.) of the Education Act, 1914, provided that, subject to the by-laws <f tho hoard, the school buildings might be used et times other than those fixed for the purposes of instruction upon such terms, as the committee might from time 4 o rime prescribe. . . If, therefore, the committee m permitting the school to be used for a social gathering was acting in accordance v.ith tlie bv-hiws of the board, it was dear that it was doing what was neimitted bv the Education Act. No ’lability rould in such a case rest <n the committee owing to the accidental destruction of the school building by fire.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 5
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158LIABILITY DECIDED Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 5
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