EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 3 June 1857, Page 3

EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

Title. — A bill to amend an Act to promote Education in the Province of Nelson.

Preamble. — Whereas an Act was passed by the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, Session 111., number 2, intituled "The Education Act, 18.)6;" and whereas it is expedient to amend the same as hereinafter provided : Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows :

1 . Sections 2, 3, add 1 9 of recited Act repealed. — Sections numbered 2, 3, and 19 of the said recited Act shall be and the same are hereby repealed. 2. Rates to be levied. — For raising the necessary funds for establishing and maintaining district schools, and for otherwise carrying out the provisions hereof, there shall be le\ied half-yearly, upon every householder in each district established under the authority of this Act, a uniform rate of ten shillings, and a further sum of two shillings and sixpence for every child of such householder between the ages of five and fourteen years : Provided i always, that no person shall be liable to pay

for more than four children, nor for any child residing more than three miles from any school established under this Act, nor for any child attending any school not established under this Act, in respect^ of whom such person shall produce to the Collector a certificate signed by the teacher of such school, showing that such child has attended during the three months previous to the levying of the rate.

3. Ratepayers to pay their Rates at places appointed for that purpose by the Superintendent. — The said rate shall be paid by the persons liable to the payment thereof to some person or persons appointed by the Superintendent for that purpose, on a day and at a place to be tixed by the Superintendent, by public notice in some newspaper published or generally circulated in the Province, not being less than twenty-one days from the time of giving notice. And if the rate, or any part thereof shall not be paid on the day so to be fixed for that purpose, the satr.e may be recovered in a summary manner before any Justice or Justices of the Peace : Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the consent of the Local Board for the district, to excuse any persons from the payment of such rate who may be deemed unable through po\erty to pay the same.

4. Rates may be sued for in the name of the Central Board. — All rates in arrear may be sued for in the name of the Central Board of Education.

5. Central Board may exempt Districts \from operation of Act. — The Central Board shall, upon the receipt of a memorial to that effect, signed by at least two-thirds of the householders in any district established under the authority of this Act, by notification in the Government Gazette, exempt such district from the operation of this Act.

Sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 to be construed as part of recited Jet. — The sections hereinbefore contained, numbered respectively 2, 3, 4, and 5, shall be read and construed as part of the said recited Act, No. 2 of Session 111.

7- Central Board to be a Body Corporate. — The Central Board of Education established under the authority of the said recited Act, and their successors, shall be deemed and taken to be a body corporate, and shall take and bear the name of " The Central Board of Education for the Province of Nelson," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power to purchase such lands and tenements as may be deemed necessary fGr the purposes of the said recited Act.

8. Lands vested in Central Board not to be alienated for more than 14 years, except as herein provided. — All lands and tenements purchased by the Central Board of Education, or which shall become vested in them, shall be held upon trust for the purposes of the said recited Act, with full power and authority to dispose or and manage the same for such purposes : Provided always that no such lands or tenements shall be alienated by way of sale or mortgage, or by lease for any longer term than fourteen years, except by the authority of an Act of the Provincial Council of the said province, to be passed in that behalf; nor except by deed signed by at least four members cf the Board, and sealed with the seal of the Board.