Education Acts Compilation.

Annual return of free places. 1903, No. 73, sec. 11

Buildings grants. Ibid, sec. 12

Subsidies. Ibid, sec. 13

» Certain schools may be disestablished. Ibid, sec. 14

Property of disestablished schools. Ibid, sec. 15

Regulations. Ibid, sec. 16 /

Schools, or by any other person directed by the Minister to inspect such school. (2.) Such inspection may include examination of the pupils in the subjects of instruction taught in such school. 92. Every secondary school shall, on or before the first day of *-*-" April in every year, forward to the Minister a return in the form prescribed by regulations of all scholarships and free places held at the school. 93. The Minister may from time to time, out of moneys appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, make grants in aid of the erection, acquisition, or equipment of buildings for secondary schools. 94. In respect of all voluntary contributions received by any Board on account of any district high school, or by the governing body of any secondary school, and available for the general purposes •*' of any such school, there shall be payable out of the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this Act, subsidies as follows : — (a.) For every one pound bequeathed, a subsidy of ten shillings : Provided that in no case shall the subsidy in respect of 20 any one bequest exceed five hundred pounds : (b.) For every one pound of voluntary contributions (other than bequests) from any person not being a Board, School Commissioners, or the governing body of an endowed secondary school, a subsidy of one pound. 25 95. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the Minister may, if he sees fit, — (a.) Disestablish any district high school in which there are less than twelve pupils holding a certificate of proficiency, and may also, on the request of the Board, disestablish 80 any district high school with a view to establish a high school under section eighty-eight hereof; (b.) Disestablish any high school established under section eighty-eight hereof in which there are less than forty pupils holding a certificate of proficiency; 35 (c.) Disestablish any such last-mentioned high school if there is in the same district an endowed secondary school giving free places as provided in section eighty-seven hereof. 96. Where any high school is disestablished as aforesaid tha property belonging to it shall vest in the Board for the purposes of 40 a district high school, and the income arising therefrom shall be applied to the maintenance of such district high school : Provided that if there is no district high school in the locality such property and the income therefrom shall be applied to such purposes of secondary education as the Minister directs. 45 97. The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations— (a.) Regarding the annual grants payable under section eightyseven hereof; and (b.) Generally for effectually carrying out the purposes of 50 sections eighty-four to ninety-sion hereof.

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