Education Acts Compilation.

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Short Title. interpretation. 1877, No. ai, seo. 4 iB9i, No. 36, sec. 2 ibid, sec. 2

Interpretation. 1877, No. 21, sec. 4

1891, No. 36, sec. 2

Ibid, sec. 2

An Act to compile certain Acts relating to the Education of the People of New Zealand. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 5 1. (1.) The Short Title of this Act shall be "The Education Acts Compilation Act, 1904." (2.) This Act is a compilation of the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule hereto. 2. In the interpretation of this Act, and except where there is something in the context repugnant thereto or inconsistent therewith, the following words and expressions shall mean or include the matters following : — "Board" means the Education Board of any district constituted under this Act: " Committee" means the School Committee elected for a school district : " District" means an education district constituted under this Act: " Dwellinghouse " means a permanent structure, and shall " not include a tent or other temporary shelter : " Gazette " means the New Zealand Gazette, and "gazetted " means published in such Gazette : " Householder " means and includes— (a.) Every adult male or female person who has for "" the period of three months next before the day of election resided in any dwellinghouse within the school district as owner or tenant thereof; and (b.) If not qualified under the previous subsection, includes the father wherever resident, or, if he be dead &0 or absent from the colony, the guardian or other person, wherever resident, who has the actual custody of any child attending any State school situated within such district; and (c.) In school districts situated within a proclaimed 35 mining district, means and includes every holder of a miner's right having for the period of three months next before the day of election resided in the district, and not being an alien : " Inspector " means any person appointed to be an Inspector 40 of Schools under this Act : " Minister " means the Minister of Education appointed for the purposes of this Act: " Outlying district" means a district not included within the iurisdiction of a Road Board, Town Board, or Borough 45 Council:

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