Education Acts Compilation.

Regulations may be made by Order in Council. 1877, No. 21, sec. 100

Minister to make annual report. Ibid, sec. 101

Boards to make annual report. Ibid, sec. 102

Committee to forward yearly report to Board. Ibid, sec. 103; 1891, No. 36, sec. 19

School lands and buildings exempt from rates. 1871, No. 21, sec. 104

Regulations and Reports. 163. The Governor in Council may, subject to the provisions of this Act, from time to time make, alter, and repeal regulations and orders— (a.) For the organization and management of the Department 5 of Education : (b.) For defining the principle on which daily average attendance shall be calculated : (c.) For the examination and classification of teachers : (d.) For the employment, education, and examination of pupil- 10 teachers : (c.) For the issue of certificates of competency to teachers : (/.) For the establishment and management of normal or training colleges : (g.) For defining the standards of education which, under the 15 provisions of this Act, may be prescribed by regulations : (h.) For prescribing the times and manner of auditing the accounts of Boards and Committees : (i.) For making such other regulations as may be necessary to secure the due administration of this Act. 20 And all such regulations shall fix a day on which the same come into force, and shall be published in the Gazette, after which they shall have the force of law, and shall be laid before both Houses of the General Assembly as soon after they are passed as circumstances will permit. 25 164. (1.) The Minister shall, before the thirteenth day of June in each and every year, lay before the Governor a report upon the progress and condition of public education in New Zealand during the year ending the thirty-first day of December immediately preceding, and also a general statement of accounts. 30 (2.) Such report and statement shall be laid before both Houses of the General Assembly within one month if the Assembly be then sitting, and, if the Assembly be not then sitting, then within one month after the next ensuing session thereof. 165. Every Board shall, before the last day of March in each 35 and every year, forward to the Minister a report of its proceedings during the previous year; and such report shall contain a full account of the income and expenditure of the Board, audited as provided by regulations, and also such information relative to the public schools and to educational matters within the district as the 40 Minister may direct. 166. Every Committee shall, before the fourth Monday in April in each and every year, forward to the Board a report of its proceedings during the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of March next preceding. Such report shall contain a full account 45 of the income and expenditure of the Committee, audited as provided by regulations, and also such information relative to the public schools and to educational matters within the district as the Board may direct. 167. Notwithstanding anything contained in " The Rating 50 Act, 1894," or in any amending Act, no rates shall be levied on any lands or buildings used for public-school purposes.

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