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incidents and consequences, as the accounts of their receipts and expenditure under the Public Health Act, 1875.

7. In the application of this Act to Ireland

(1.) The expression "local authority" shall mean the urban or rural sanitary authority, as the case may be, within the meaning of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878.

(2.) The local rate for the purposes of this Act shall be

(a.) in the case of an urban sanitary authority, the rate or fund applicable to the expenses incurred or payable by such authority in the execution of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, under the provisions of the said Act;

(6.) In the case of a rural sanitary authority, the rate or rates out of
which special expenses incurred in respect of any contributory place
or places are payable under the provisions of the said Act.

(3.) A local authority may borrow for the purposes of this Act as if the
purposes of this Act were purposes for which the sanitary authority
are authorised to borrow under the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878.
(4.) Any reference to the Public Health Act, 1875, shall be construed as a
reference to the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878.

8. In this Act

The expression "technical instruction" shall mean instruction in the principles of science and art applicable to industries, and in the application of special branches of science and art to specific industries or employments. It shall not include teaching the practice of any trade or industry or employment, but, save as aforesaid, shall include instruction in the branches of science and art with respect to which grants are for the time being made by the Department of Science and Art, and any other form of instruction (including modern languages and commercial and agricultural subjects), which may for the time being be sanctioned by that Department by a minute laid before Parliament and made on the representation of a local authority that such a form of instruction is required by the circumstances of its district.

The expression "manual instruction" shall mean instruction in the use of tools, processes of agriculture, and modelling in clay, wood, or other material.

9. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

10. This act may be cited as the Technical Instruction Act, 1889.

Application of
Ireland.

the Act to

41 & 42 Vict.c.62.

Meaning of technical and

manual instruction.

Extent of Act.

Short title.

N.B.-Sec. 2 (1) cap. 33, 62 and 63 Vict.-The Board of Education shall ake the place of the Education Department (including the Department of Science and Art), and all enactments and documents shall be construed accordingly.

Explanation of powers of local authority as to technical instruction.

52 & 53 Vict. C 76

Application of balances.

53 & 54 Vict. c. 60

51 & 52 Vict. C. 41.

Construction of 53 & 54 Vict.

c 60. s. 1.

Short title and construction.

TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION ACT, 1891.

54 & 55 Vict., Chapter 4.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Technical Instruction. [26th March 1891.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. (1.) Subject to the conditions and restrictions contained in the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, a local authority may

(a.) Make such provision in aid of the technical or manual instruction for the time being supplied in a school or institution outside its district as may, in the opinion of the authority, be necessary for the requirements of the district in cases where similar provision cannot be so advantageously made by aiding a school or institution within its district; and

(b.) Provide or assist in providing scholarships for or pay or assist in paying the fees of students ordinarily resident in the district of the local authority at schools or institutions within or outside that district. (2.) In distributing the provision made in aid of technical or manual in struction, the local authority may consider all the circumstances of the case, and shall not be bound to distribute the provision so made exclusively in proportion to the nature and amount of efficient technical or manual instruction supplied by those schools or institutions respectively.

2. Any moneys received by a county council under sub-section (1) (b) of section one of the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, and directed by resolution of the county council to be appropriated or to be set aside for the purposes of technical or manual instruction, shall, although not expended or specifically contributed or allotted in whole or in part before the end of the financial year, remain applicable for such purposes, and shall not be applied in manner provided by sub-section (2) and the following sub-sections of section twenty-three of the Local Government Act, 1888, until the county council shall have made an order for such application.

Where a council shall have referred to a committee the question of appropriating to purposes of technical or manual instruction any sum consisting of the whole or any part of such moneys, this section, unless and until the council otherwise direct, shall, until the committee shall have made their report and the council shall have arrived at a decision thereon or the appointment of the committee shall have been rescinded, apply to such sum as if the same had been directed by the council to be appropriated to such purposes.

3. The expression "technical education" in section one of the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, shall be deemed to include both technical and manual instruction within the meaning of the Technical Instruction Acts, 1889 and 1891.

4. This Act may be cited as the Technical Instruction Act, 1891, and shall be construed as one with the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, and this Act and the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, may be cited together as the Technical Instruction Acts, 1889 and 1891.

See also

Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, 53 & 54 Vict. ch. 60.
Technical and Industrial Institutions Act, 1892, 55 & 56 Vict. ch. 29.
Schools for Science and Art Act, 1891, 54 & 55 Vict. ch. 61.

Technical Schools (Scotland) Act, 1887, 50 & 51 Vict. ch. 64.

Technical Instruction Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1892, 55 & 56 Vict. ch. 63

Public Libraries Act, 1892, 55 & 56 Vict. ch. 53.

Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1887, 50 & 51 Vict. ch. 42.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT, 1899.

62 & 63 Vict., Chapter 33.

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Board of Education for
England and Wales, and for matters connected therewith.

[9th August 1899.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1.--(1.) There shall be established a Board of Education charged with the Establishment superintendence of matters relating to education in England and of Board of Wales.

(2.) The Board shall consist of a President, and of the Lord President of
the Council (unless he is appointed President of the Board), Her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the First Commissioner of
Her Majesty's Treasury, the Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer.
(3.) The existing Vice-President of the Committee of the Privy Council
on Education shall also be a member of the Board, but on the next
vacancy in his office the office shall be abolished, and the enactments
mentioned in the schedule to this Act shall be repealed.

(4.) The President of the Board shall be appointed by Her Majesty, and
shall hold office during Her Majesty's pleasure.

(5.) The Board shall be deemed to be established on the appointment of the President thereof.

2.-(1.) The Board of Education shall take the place of the Education Department (including the Department of Science and Art), and all enactments and documents shall be construed accordingly.

(2.) It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council, from time to time, by Order, to transfer to, or make exerciseable by, the Board of Education any of the powers of the Charity Commissioners or of the Board of Agriculture in matters appearing to Her Majesty to relate to education, and the Order may make such provision as appears necessary for applying to the exercise of those powers by the Board of Education the enactments relating to the Charity Commissioners or to the Board of Agriculture. Provided that any question as to whether an endowment or any part of an endowment is held for or ought to be applied to educational purposes shall be determined by the Charity Commissioners.

Education.

Duties and powers of

Board of
Education.

schools.

3.-(1.) The Board of Education may by their officers, or, after taking the Inspection of
advice of the Consultative Committee hereinafter mentioned, by any secondary
University or other organisation, inspect any school supplying secondary
education and desiring to be so inspected, for the purpose of ascertaining
the character of the teaching in the school and the nature of the pro-
visions made for the teaching and health of the scholars, and may so
inspect the school on such terms as may be fixed by the Board of Edu-
cation with the consent of the Treasury: Provided that the inspection
of schools established by scheme under the Welsh Intermediate 52 & 53 Vict.
Education Act, 1889, shall, subject to regulations made by the Treasury
under section nine of that Act, be conducted as heretofore by the
Central Welsh Board for Intermediate Education, and that the said
Board shall be recognised as the proper organisation for the inspection
of any such schools as may be desirous of inspection under this section.
(2.) The council of any county or county borough may out of any
money applicable for the purposes of technical education pay or con-
tribute to the expenses of inspecting under this section any school
within their county or borough.

H 4

c. 40.

Consultative
Committe!.

Orders to be laid before Parliament.

Staff, remuneration,

and expenses.

Style, seal, and proceedings of Board of Education.

Power for

President or
secretary to sit
in Parliament.
30 & 31 Vict.
c. 102.

31 & 32 Vict.
c. 48.

31 & 32 Vict. C. 49.

31 & 32 Vict. c. 72.

Extent, com

mencement, and

short titis.

4.-It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council, by Order, to establish a Consultative Committee consisting, as to not less than two-thirds, of persons qualified to represent the views of Universities and other bodies interested in education, for the purpose of—

(a) framing, with the approval of the Board of Education, regulations for a register of teachers, which shall be formed and kept in manner to be provided by Order in Council: Provided that the register so formed shall contain the names of the registered teachers arranged in alphabetical order, with an entry in respect to each teacher showing the date of his registration, and giving a brief record of his qualifications and experience; and

(b) advising the Board of Education on any matter referred to the committee by the Board.

5.-The draft of any Order proposed to be made under this Act shall be laid before each House of Parliament for not less than four weeks during which that House is sitting, before it is submitted to Her Majesty in Council.

6. (1.) The Board of Education may appoint such secretaries, officers, and servants as the Board may, with the sanction of the Treasury, determine.

(2.) There shall be paid, out of moneys provided by Parliament, to the
President of the Board, unless he holds another salaried office, such
annual salary not exceeding two thousand pounds, and to the secre-
taries, officers, and servants of the Board such salaries or remunera-
tion, as the Treasury may determine.

7. (1.) The Board of Education may sue and be sued and may for all
be described by that name.
purposes

(2.) The Board shall have an official seal, which shall be officially and
judicially noticed, and that seal shall be authenticated by the signa-
ture of the President or some member of the Boar,d or of a secretary,
or of some person authorised by the President or some member of the
Board to act on behalf of a secretary.

(3.) Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the Board of Education, and to be sealed with the seal of the Board, authenticated in manner provided by this Act, or to be signed by a secretary or any person authorised by the President or some member of the Board to act on behalf of a secretary, shall be received in evidence, and be deemed to be such an instrument without further proof, unless the contrary is shown.

(4.) A certificate signed by the President or any member of the Board of Education that any instrument purporting to be made or issued by the President or some member of the Board is so made or issued shall be conclusive evidence of fact.

8.-(1.) The office of President of the Board of Education shall not
render the person holding it incapable of being elected to, or of voting
in, the Commons House of Parliament, and shall be deemed to be an
office included in Schedule H. of the Representation of the People Act,
1867; in Schedule H. of the Representation of the People (Scotland)
Act, 1868; in Schedule E. of the Representation of the People (Ireland)
Act, 1868; and in Part I. of the Schedule of the Promissory Oaths
Act, 1868.

(2.) After the abolition of the office of the Vice-President of the Com-
mittee of the Privy Council on Education, one of the secretaries of the
Board of Education shall not by reason of his office be incapable of
being elected to or of voting in the Commons House of Parliament.
9.(1.) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

(2.) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of April one
thousand nine hundred.

(3.) This Act may be cited as the Board of Education Act, 1899.

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