Education Acts Compilation.

Pupils to have standard. 6 l 1903, No. 73, sec. 3

Provision for free places to be made secondary schools, ibid, sec. 4 Grants to be given for free places.

Grants to be given for free places. Ibid, sec. 5

"District high school" means a district high school established in accordance with section eighty hereof : " Endowed secondary school" means any secondary school named in the Eighth Schedule hereto : " Endowments " means endowments derived from a grant or 5 grants from the public revenue, or from a grant or grants of land made at any time by the Governor or otherwise : " Free place " means tuition given without payment of fees to one pupil in accordance with regulations made under 10 section ninety-seven hereof : " Net annual income derived from endowments " means the average during the three years ending the thirty-first day of December preceding of the total annual income derived from endowments, from the School Commissioners, from 15 all investments of moneys derived from endowments (including mortgages and bank deposits) available for the general purposes of the secondary schools, less expenditure upon such endowments and investments, and less expenditure upon buildings and the maintenance and 20 repairs of buildings, and less mortgage and bank charges in respect of lands and buildings : " Secondary school" means an endowed secondary school or a high school established under section eighty-eight hereof: 25 85. No pupil shall, after the passing of this Act, be admitted to a secondary school until he has obtained a certificate of competency in the subjects of Standard V., or a higher standard, of the publicschool syllabus : Provided that pupils that have not obtained such a certificate 30 may be admitted to a lower department of such secondary school if they are taught in a separate building or class-room, and if it can be shown to the satisfaction of the Minister that no part of the actual cost of their instruction is met out of the endowments of the secondary school. 35 86. (1.) Every endowed secondary school shall, after the passing of this Act, unless it provides free places in accordance with the next succeeding section, offer scholarships of a total annual value equal to one-fifth of the annual income derived from endowments, or such greater amount as the governing body from time to time 40 determines. (2.) The values of the several scholarships and the conditions under which they are offered shall be approved by the Minister. (3.) Where no secondary school is maintained by the governing body of an endowed secondary school, the income of such endowed 45 secondary school shall, if the Minister thinks fit, be devoted in whole or in part to the maintenance of another school in the locality, either a high school under section eighty-eight hereof or a district high school, as the Minister directs. 87. To every secondary school that provides free places in 50 accordance with regulations annual grants shall be paid according to the scale set out in the Seventh Schedule hereto.

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