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XXIII.-(cont.)

and appoint

Secretary.

The Special Local Secretary is appointed by the Nomination Board on the nomination of the Managers, or, where ment of there are different schools in the District, of a Special Special Local Committee composed of delegates from their Managers. Assistants will be appointed by the Board on the Assistants for Special nomination of the Special Local Secretary. The Local number of assistants required will be fixed by the Secretary. Special Local Secretary, subject to the approval of the Board.

The Managers or Special Committee of delegates, as the case may be, may require that all moneys received for fees should be accounted for to them.

No persons who have relatives to be examined within their district, or who are ineligible to act as Local Managers, can act as Special Local Secretaries or Assistants. See Appendix p. 97.

Local contri

examination.

XXIV. One moiety of the fund for paying the Special bution toward Local Secretary and the Assistants must be contributed the expenses of by the locality. When the certificate on Form 983 has been received from the Special Committee, they will receive the other moiety from the Board.

Each school or class having students for examination, may be required by the Special Local Secretary to pay its contribution prior to the time of the examination; the students of any school or class from which such contribution has been so required but has not been received will be excluded from the examination. In levying this contribution the balance of fees available should be taken as part of the local moiety.

Where no Special Local Secretary is appointed by the SuperintenBoard, and where there exists an organization which is dents. recognized under the provisions of §VII. the organization may nominate superintendents of examinations who will be paid at the rates allowed to the Special Local Secretary's Assistants and will be subject to the regulations by which such assistants are controlled as far as they apply.

Managers.

XXV. Where the Board does not appoint a Special Examinations Local Secretary, or paid superintendents as above, conducted by the superintendence of the examinations will devolve upon the Managers. In the case of Schools for examination within reasonable distance of one another, the Managers may be required to form a General Examination Committee to conduct the examinations

Amalgamated examinations.

Examination

of external Students.

XXV.-(cont.)

at some common centre or centres. An Examination Secretary must then be appointed, who must be a Manager.

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Where there is no Special Local Secretary, a Manager, or a Superintendent previously nominated by the Managers and approved by the Board, may be paid a fee of half-a-guinea for each attendance of not less than three hours for the supervision of an examination in Still Life Painting or Casting before 7 p.m. Of this fee one-half must be contributed by the locality. When a Certificate is received from the Chairman and Secretary of the Managers that this half has been lodged with them, the Secretary will receive the other half from the Board. He must then pay to the Superintendent the full fee.

XXVI. Where the examination of Schools is amalgamated their Managers must furnish the Special Local Secretary, if there be one, or the Examination Secretary, with a list of the names of the candidates from their schools which they superintend, and a statement of the subjects in which each candidate is to be presented for examination. The Special Local Secretary, or the Examination Secretary, should refuse to provide accommodation for any candidate whose name has not been returned to him before he transmits the formal application for papers, casts, &c., to the Board. For the Evening examinations these lists must be sent to the Special Local Secretary or the Examination Secretary not later than the 3rd March, and for the Day examinations not later than the 30th April. See also § XXVIII.

XXVII. Special Local Secretaries, or Managers who are authorised to supervise the examinations, must admit to any examinations they hold (in subjects other than those specified below), external candidates who have applied to the Special Local Secretary, where one has been appointed, or to the Secretary of the Local Managers, not later than the 1st March for admission to the Evening examinations, and the 28th April for the Day examinations, and may charge the candidate a fee of 2s. 6d. for each morning, afternoon, or evening of examination for which he registers his name. The admission of an external candidate to an examination

XXVII. (cont.)

in Practical Inorganic Chemistry, Practical Organic Chemistry, Practical Metallurgy, or Modelling and Casting is not obligatory: where a candidate is admitted to such an examination the fee of 3s. 6d. may be charged. The fee includes the cost of any Elementary examination for which the candidate applies, and in respect of which the Special Local Secretary or the Local Managers must transmit the prescribed fee to the Board. (See § XX., p. 14.)

External Candidates desiring examination in a subject of Science or Art must send an application accompanied by the fee prescribed above to the Special Local Secretary, or where no Special Local Secretary has been appointed to the Examination Secretary.

The fee of 1s. 6d. (or 2s. 6d. in the case of practical subjects)
specified in § XX. must be paid by every Candidate for examin-
ation in the Elementary Stage, but no other examination fee
should be charged in respect of (a) Candidates who are registered
Students in Art, for their examination in Art Subjects, (b)
Candidates who are registered Students in a subject of Science
for their examination in that subject, (c) Candidates who are
registered Students in a specially recognized group of Science and Art
subjects, for their examination in a subject of such group (d) students
or teachers of Science and Art Schools and classes which are
amalgamated for examination, or (e) those schools or students
who are required either by the Board or by the local arrange-
ments to go to any special centre for examination.

When there are less than four candidates for examination in one
place the Board may require them to go to a neighbouring

centre.

SCIENCE.

Examinations will be held at the Board's buildings, South Kensington, in subjects of practical Science only. To these, Students of the Royal College of Science and such persons as are called up specially for practical examination in Honours, can alone be admitted.

APPLICATION FOR EXAMINATION PAPERS.

Examination

XXVIII. Managers must apply to the Board or, Application for where such officer is appointed, to the Special Local by Managers. Secretary or to the Examination Secretary as the case

Board not responsible for mistakes.

Custodian of Examination questions.

XXVIII.-(cont.)

may be, for examination papers on Form 119, not later than the 3rd March for the Evening examinations and the 30th April for the Day examinations. With the Form must be sent a list showing the names of the candidates and the subjects in which each is to be examined, and in the case of Elementary Stages the examination fee. (See also § XXVI.) For details, see Appendix, p. 97.

Late or irregular applications cannot be entertained.

XXIX. All possible care is taken to forward the examination papers in accordance with the applications, and to issue the results correctly, but the Board cannot undertake to rectify mistakes, nor will it be responsible for any incidental loss.

CUSTODY OF EXAMINATION PAPERS.

XXX. A custodian must be appointed for each district to receive and distribute the packets of examination questions. He will be responsible for their safe custody and distribution. He must be a person eligible to act as a Manager. (See p. 67.)

The packets of examination questions must not under any circumstances be permitted to pass into the hands of a teacher, of a candidate for examination, or of any other person interested in the success of the examination.

Local circumstances will dictate whether it be advisable to have one, or more than one, custodian for each district or section of a district.

The custodian will be nominated in the same manner as the Special Local Secretary, excepting that where a Local Authority or an Organization under § VII. has classes under its own control it may nominate the custodian.

When a custodian has been approved, the packets of examination questions will, in due course, be sent to him.

It will therefore be necessary for the Custodian, after ascertaining from the Examination Secretary the subjects of Examination, the centres at which they will be held, and the names of the Superintendents, to take such steps as will ensure his handing the packets to the Superintendents at such a time prior to that fixed for the Examination as will enable them to conform to the regulations for holding it.

CONDUCT OF EXAMINATIONS.

XXXI. The detailed regulations for the conduct of the examinations are given on pp. 88 to 95.

The requisite forms are issued in due course to Managers and Special Local Secretaries who have applied for examinations in accordance with the rules.

IRREGULARITIES AT EXAMINATION.

examination.

XXXII. The Board will disallow examinations Irregularities: which afford evidence of fraud; it will investigate cases of suspected irregularity, and may require any or all of the candidates to be re-examined. If any candidate should fail to appear at such investigation, or decline to be re-examined, all his previous examinations may be cancelled. When an examination has failed through no fault of the candidates a re-examination will be allowed, the cost of which may be charged to the Special Local Secretary, or to the Managers.

EXAMINATION OF STUDENTS' WORKS FOR GRANTS

AND PRIZES.

works.

XXXIII. Art Works eligible for examination at Examination South Kensington must have been executed at Schools of students' of Art and Art Classes by students, under the instruction of the recognised teachers, wholly in the class rooms at the meetings of the class during the session.

Science Works in Subjects I., II., III., and IV., similarly executed, but at times other than those during which instruction for an attendance grant is given, may also be sent, provided that the attendances of students while executing Science Works are recorded in a register separate from that used to record attendances for a Science attendance grant. Managers will be required to certify that the Works submitted have been wholly executed during such separately registered attendance.

A work which has been once submitted may not be again submitted, and no works done in Schools of Science are admissible to the examination of Works. For details see Appendix, p. 99.

The best of these works will be selected to enter into a National Competition for medals and prizes (see § XLVIII., p. 32).

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