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Oireachtas Library 54023001312633 BILLE OIDEACHAIS GHAIRME BEATHA, 1930.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BILL, 1930.

Mar do tugadh isteacli.

As introduced.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Section.

PART I.

., Preliminary.

1.

Short title.

2.

Definitions.

3.

Continuation education.

4.

Technical education.

5.

Date of attainment of any particular age.

PART II.

Vocational Education Committees.

G. Vocational education areas.

7.

Establishment of vocational education committees.

8.
8.

Constitution of vocational education committees.

9.

Elections of members of committees.

10.

Term of office of members of committees.

11.

Resignation and disqualification of members of committees.

12.

Filling of casual vacancies in committees.

13.

Meetings of vocational education committees.

14.

Triennial meetings of vocational education committees.

15.

Chairman of vocational education committees.

1G.

Vice-chairman of vocational education committees.

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Temporary chairman at first meetings and triennial meetings.

18.

Procedure at meetings of committees.

19.

Meetings abandoned for want of quorum.

20.

Minutes, registers, and records to be kept by committees.

21.. Sub-committees of vocational education committees.

22.

Payment of travelling expenses to members of certain committees.

23.

Officers of vocational education committees.

24.

First chief executive officers of certain committees.

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25.

Application of certain provisions of the Act of 1925 as amended.

Action.

26.

Removal of officers and servants by the Minister.

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Acquisition of lands by vocational education committees.

28.

Acceptance of educational endowments by committees.

PART III.

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Duties generally of vocational education committees.

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General schemes.


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General powers in relation to continuation education.

32.

Registration of certain persons attending continuation schools and courses.

33.

General powers in relation to technical education.

34.

Existing supply of technical education.

35.

Determination of subject-matter of powers.

36.

Deficiency in supply of continuation education or technical education.

37.

Higher technical education.

38.


Establishment of scholarships.

39.

Co-operation between committees.

40.

Fees to be charged by committees.

PART IV.

Finance of Vocational Education Committees.

Rating authorities and areas of charge.

Annual local contributions to vocational education com­ mittees.

Preparation of annual schemes by committees.

Demand by committee for annual local contribution.

Treasurer of vocational education committees.

Vocational education fund.

Powers of borrowing.


Borrowing by vocational education committee for per­ manent works.

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42.

43.

44.

45.

46.

47.

48.

49.

Grants by rating authorities.

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Application of certain moneys.

51.

52.

53.

54.

55.

56.

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Application of parliamentary grants.

Expenses of delegates to certain conferences.

Subscription to certain agencies and associations.

Travelling expenses and maintenance of teachers attending certain classes.
Non-application of sub-section (7) of section 51 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898.

Audit of accounts of vocational education committees.

PART V. Enforcement of Continuation Education.

Interpretation of this Part of this Act.

2 / Section.

58.

District to which this Part of this Act applies.

59.

Courses of instruction, provided by vocational education committees.

60.

Approved courses and approved schools.

61.

Obligation to attend for instruction.

62.


Reasonable excuses for failure to attend for instruction.

63.

The enforcing authority.

64.

Parents to furnish, particulars of their children.

65.

Employers to furnish particulars.

66.

Information to be furnished by Juvenile Advisory Com­ .

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m' • * mittees.

67.

Facilities for attending courses of instruction.

68.

Returns by principal teachers.

69.

Duty to enforce attendance of young persons for instruc­ tion.
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Parent to notify cause of absence.

71.

Failure to comply with this Part of this Act.

72.

Attendance officers.

73.

Authentication of warnings, notices, etc.

74.

Prosecutions at suit of attendance officer.

75.

Miscellaneous provisions as to prosecutions.

76.

Expenses.

PART VI.

Enforcement of Technical Education.

77.

Persons to whom this Part of thfs Act applies.

Interpretation of this Part of this Act.

78.

79.

District to which this Part of this Act applies.


80.

Designated trades.

81.

Technical education in districts to which this Part of this; Act applies.

82.

Obligation to attend courses in technical education.

83.

The enforcing authority.

84.

Employers to furnish particulars.

85.

Facilities for attending courses of instruction.

86.

Duty of enforcing authority.

87.

Attendance officers.

88.

Authentication of notices, etc.

89.

Prosecution at suit of attendance officer.


90 Provisions in relation to prosecutions.

91.

Expenses.

PART VII.

Transitory Provisions in Relation to Committees of Technical Instruction.

92.

The appointed day.

93.

Transfer of functions etc.

to \*ocational education com­ mittees.

94.

Transfer of property to vocational education committees.

95.

Transfer of debts and liabilities to Vocational education committees.

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96.

Continuance of pending transactions.

97.


Transfer of officers to vocational education committees.

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I PART VIII.

Amalgamation of Urban District Vocational Education Areas with County Vocational Education Areas.

98.

Amalgamation of urban district and county vocational education areas.

99.

Effect of amalgamation order.

100.

Ancillary provisions in amalgamation orders.

PART IX.

General Powers of the Minister.

101.

Continuation education and technical education in the Gaeltacht.

102.
102.

Consultative councils.

103.

Local inquiries by the Minister.

104.

Attendance of witnesses at local inquiries.

105.

Administration of oaths at local inquiries.

106.

Dissolution of vocational education committees.

107.

Grants to certain schools.

108.

Grants by the Minister.

109.

Minimum rates of salaries for teachers.

110.

Training and certification of teachers.

111.

112.

Records to be kept by schools in receipt of grants.

113.

Facilities to teachers.

Inspection of schools.


PART X. Miscellaneous.

Inspection and copies of registers of births and deaths.

114.

Service of notices.

115.

116.

Offences in relation to certificates.

117.

Exemption from certain disqualifications.

118.

Saving for industrial or reformatory schools.

119.

Expenses of this Act.

120.

Regulations.

121.

Repeals.

First Schedule.

The Scheduled Urban Districts.

Second Schedule.

Rules for payments of travelling expenses.

Third Schedule.
Third Schedule.

Maximum annual liabilities in respect of annual local contributions.

• Foi*rth Schedule.

County boroughs and urban districts referred to in Parts jhoi V and VI of this Act.

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Enactments Repealed.

4 BILLE OIDEACHAIS GHAIRME BEATHA, 1930.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BILL, 1930 BILL entitled AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER AND BETTER PROVISION IX RELATION TO CONTINUATION EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT 10 El RE ANN AS FOLLOWS:— PART I Preliminary.

1.—This Act may be cited as the Vocational Education Act, Short title.

1930 15 2.—Ln this Act— *r Definitions.
the expression “ the Minister ” means the Minister for Educa­ tion ; the word “inspector" means a person authorised in writing (either generally or for a special purpose) by the Minister to 20 exercise all or any of the powers and perform all or any of the duties conferred or imposed on an inspector by this Act; the word “ county ” means an administrative county but does not mcludc a county borough; the expression “ local authority ” means and includes the council 25 of a county, the council of a county borough, and the council of an urban district; the expression “ the Act of 1889 ’’ means the Technical Instruc­ tion Act, 1889; the expression “ the Act of 1891 ” means the Technical Instrue- 30 tion Act; 1891; the expression “ the Act of 1899 ” means the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899; Ihc expression “ the Act of 1925 " means the Local Government Act, 1925 (No.
5 of 1925); 35 the expression “ the Act of 1927 ” means the Local Government .

Act, 1927 (No.
3 of 1927): 1 « *1 .. j r { the expression “ local financial year " means a period of twelve months ending on any 31st day of March; the expression “ rateable value ” means the annual rateable 40 value under the Valuation Acts; the expression “ principal teacher ” includes any deputy prin­ cipal or other teaeher for the time being acting as or for a principal teacher; .the word''4 sickness M includes any physical or mental malady 45 or injury; ■ * the word “ trade ” includes any trade, craft, or calling; 5 the expression “scheduled urban district” means an urban district mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act; ' .
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\ \*i - v“ the expression “ election year ” means the year 1931 or any ensuing third successive year; .

the expression “young person” means a person who has 5. attained the age of fourteen years and has not attained the age of sixteen years; ...... .
..... the word “ parent ” in relation to a young person means the individual having the legal custody of such young person and, where owing to the absence of such individual or for any other 10 reason such young person is not living with or is not in the actual custody of such individual, includes the individual with whom such young person is living Or in whose actual custody such young person is; the word “ employment ” in relation to a young person means IS employment and occupation in any labour exercised by way of trade or for the purpose of gain to such young person or to any other person; the expression “ offence under this Part of this Act ” includes’an offence under any section or sub-section contained in the Part of 90, this Act in which such expression occurs; the word “ prescribed ” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act.
3*—For the purposes of this Act the expression continuation education ” means education to continue and supplement educa- 25- tion provided in elementary schools and includes general and practical training in preparation for employment in trades, manufactures, agriculture, commerce, and other industrial pur­ suits.

and also general and practical training for improvement of young persons in the early stages of such employment.
4-— (1) For the purposes of this Act the expression “ technical education ” means education pertaining to trades, niannfacturcs.

commerce, and oth'M* industrial pursuits (including the occupa­ tions of girls and women carried on in workshops or connected with the household) and includes education in the principles of 35- science and art applicable to such pursuits and in subjects bear* ing thereon or relating thereto and also inclndes physical training.

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(2) The Minister may from time to time by order declare that the expression “ technical education ” shall for the purposes of 40 this Aet include instruction in such subjects connected with such pursuits, employments and occupations (other than agriculture) as may be specified in such order and whenever any such order is made the meaning of the said expression shall for the purposes of this Act be extended in conformity with the provisions of such 4.">.
order.

(3) The Minister may from time to time, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, by order declare that the ex­ pression “ technical education ” shall for the purposes of this Aet also include instruction in such subjects bearing on or relating to 50* agriculture as may be specified in such order and whenever any such order is made the meaning of the said expression shall for •he purposes of this Act be extended in conformity with the pro­ visions of such order.
5.—For the purposes of this Act a person shall be deemed to 55, attain any particular age on whichever of the following days, that is to say, the 31st day of March, the 30th day of June, the 30th day of September or the 31st day of December first occurs < K after the anniversary of his birth on which he actually attains* such age.

‘ Continuation education.

Technical education.

Date of attainment of any particular age.

PART II.

Vocational Education Committees.


6.—(1) Every county borough shall be a borough vocational Vocational education area for the purposes of this Act.

education areas.

•5 (2) Every scheduled urban district shall be an urban district vocational education area for the purposes of this Act.

(3) Every county (excluding so much, if any, thereof as is for the time being included in a scheduled urban district) shall bs a county vocational education area for the purposes of this Act.
40 (4) In this Act the expression “ vocational education area ” includes a borough vocational education area, an urban district vocational education area, and a county vocational education , area.

7.—{1} There shall be a committee (in this Act referred to as a Establishment of 45 vocational education committee) in and for every vocational educa- vocational tion area to fulfil in respect of such area the duties assigned to educa^°n vocational education committees by this Act.
1 es* (2) Every vocational education committee shall be styled and known bv such style or name as the Minister shall appoint, but •20 unless and until the Minister appoints the style and name of any particular committee, such committee shall be styled and known— (a) in the case of the committee for a borough vocational education area, by the style or name “ The City of (name of the county borouyh) Vocational Education Committee and 25 (i>) in the case of the committee for an urban district voca­ tional education area, by the style or name “ The Town of (name of the urban district) Vocational Education Committee and (c) in the case of the committee for a county vocational education area, by the style or name “ The County (name of the county) Vocational Education Committee."
-30 (3) Every vocational education committee shall be a body corporate l>y its said style or name, and shall have perpetual #*5 succession and an official seal (which shall be judicially noticed), with power to acquire and hold land for the purpose of its powers and ditties.
8.—(1) The vocational education committee for a borough Constitution of vocational education area shall consist of fourteen members vocational 40 elected by the council of the county borough which is such education 1 orough vocational education area, of whom not less than eight committee?- ^ shall be persons who arc members of such council.
/ (2) The vocational education committee for an urban district vocational education area shall consist of fourteen members 45 elected by the council of the urban district which is such urban district vocational education area, of whom not less than eight shall be persons who are members of such council.
(3) The vocational education committee for a county vocational education area shall consist of— 50 (a) fourteen members elected by the council of the county which is or includes such county vocational education area, of whom not less than eight shall be persons who are members of such council; and (b) where such vocational education area contains one or more urban districts whieh are not scheduled urban districts, (i) if the number of such urban districts does not ex­ ceed four, two members elected by the council of , each of such urban districts, of whom one at least .
7 Elections of members of committees.

shall be a person “who is a member of such coujl- cil, or ’ ' (i») if the number of such urban districts exceeds , four, one member elected by the council of each such urban, district who shall be a person who _s .

5- a "member of such council.
(4) A local authority electing under this section persons to be ’ members of a vocational education committee shall’ have regard to the interest and .experience in education of the person pro-, posed to be so elected and to any recommendations made by 10 bodies (including associations or bodies of employers or of em­ ployees) interested in manufactures or trades in the area of such 1 committee and shall, where it appears desirable and circumstances permit, so make such election as to provide for the representa­ tion of such bodies on such committee.
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The first election'by local authorities of members of vocational education committees shall take place on such day as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Local Govern­ ment and Public Health, shall appoint for the purpose, and different days may be sp appointed in respect of different local 20 authorities.
(2) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the elections by local authorities of members of vocational educa­ tion committees (other than the first such elections and elections to fill casual vacancies), that is to say:— 25.
(fl) every council of a county or an urban district which is not a borough shall in every election year elect at the annual meeting of such council held in that year such number of members of sueh vocational education committee as such council is entitled under this Act 30 so to elect, and such election shall be included in the • business to be transacted at every such annual meet- • ing of such, council; and.
(b) every council of a county or other borough shall in every election year elect at the quarterly meeting of 35 such council held between the 23rd day of June and the 15th day of July in that year such nttmbcr of mem­ bers of sueh vocational education committee as such council is entitled under this Act so to elect, and such , election shall bo included in the business to be trails- 40* .
acted,at every such quarterly meeting of such council* (3) In this section the expressions “ annual .meeting ” and “ quarterly meeting ” have the meanings respectively assigned to them by the Local Government (Ireland) Act.

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Term of office of members of committees.

10.—(1) The terra of office of every member of a vocational 45- education committee’elected at the first election of members of such committee shall commence at the commencement of the first meeting of such committee.
• (2) The term of office of every member of a vocational educa­ tion committee (other than a member elected at the first election 5( of members of such committee or a member elected to fill a casual vacancy) shall commence at the termination of the meeting of the local authority at which he was elected.- (3) Every member of a vocational education committee (other than a member elected to fill a casual vacancy) shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, hold office until the next meeting of the local authority by whom he was elected at which such authority is required by this Act to elect (otherwise than to fill a casual vacancy) members or a member of such committee.
Resignation and disqualification of members of committees.

ll.-(l) A member of a vocational education committee may at any time resign his office as such member by letter addressed and sent to the chief executive officer of such committee and 8 ‘ .

every such resignation shall take effect at the commencement of the meeting of such committee commencing next after the receipt of such resignation by such officer.

(2) Whenever a member of a vocational education committee .
'5 who was, at the time of his election as such member, a member of the local authority by which he was so elected, ceases to be a member of such local authority he shall be disqualified for con­ tinuing to be and shall forthwith cease to be a member of such committee but shall, if not otherwise disqualified, be eligible for j re-election.
(3) If a member of a vocational education committee is absent from all meetings of such committee for a period of six consecu­ tive months he shall, unless his absence was due to illness or was approved of by the committee, be disqualified at the expiration 15 of such period from continuing to be a member of such com­ mittee and shall also be disqualified for one year from such expiration for being a member of such committee.
(4) A member of a vocational education committee shall, if ’ not otherwise disqualified, be eligible for election as a member 20 of such committee at or in contemplation of the expiration by effluxion of time of his term of office as such member.
12.—(1) Whenever a vacancy* (in this Act referred to as a casual vacancy) occurs in the membership of a vocational education committee by reason of the death, resignation, or dis- 5 qualification of a member thereof, the local authority by whom such member was elected shall, as soon as conveniently may be, elect a person to fill such vacancy.
(2) In electing a person to fill a casual vacancy in the member­ ship of a vocational education committee, the local authority 10 electing such person shall have regard to the provisions of this Act in relation to the number of members of such committee who are required to be members of such authority.
(3) A person elected to fill a casual vacancy in the member­ ship of a vocational education committee shall, unless he sooner S5 dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, hold office as a member of such committee for the residue of the term for which the member whose death, resignation, or disqualification occasioned the vacancy would have held office as such member if he had not died, resigned, or become disqualified.

Filling of casual vacancies in committees.


4Q 13.—(1) Every vocational education committee shall hold its first meeting on such day, at such time and in such place as the Minister shall appoint.

Meetings of vocational education committees.

1 \ (2) Every vocational education committee shall, in every local financial year and before the 1st day of December in such year, 45 hold a meeting in this Act referred to as the annual meeting.
(3) Every vocational education committee shall hold at least one meeting in every month other than the months of July, August and September.

(4) Every vocational education committee shall hold at least 50 one meeting during the period commencing on the 1st day of July and ending on the 30th day of September in every year.
(5) Subject to the provisions of this section and the next following section, every vocational education committee shall hold such and so many meetings, at such times, and in such 55 places as it thinks proper.

14.— (1) Every vocational education committee shall in every election year hold a meeting (in this Act referred to as a trien­ nial meeting) on the day appointed under this section in respect of such year for the holding of such meeting by such committee.
60 (2) Every vocational education committee shall on or before the 31st day of May in every election year appoint a day (n6t being earlier than three days nor later than ten days after the 9 Triennial meetings of vocational education committees.

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completion of the elections in such year of the members of sueh committee) for the holding of the triennial meeting in such year by such committee.
(3) Where in any election year no day has been appointed under the foregoing sub-section for the holding of a triennial 5 meeting of a vocational education committee in that year, the day for the holding of such meeting in such year shall be the seventh day after the completion of the elections in such year of the members of sueh committee.
(4) Where a triennial meeting of a vocational education com- 10 mittee is for any reason (including a quorum not being present) not held on the day appointed under this section for the holding of such meeting the chief executive officer of such committee shall as soon as may be summon a meeting of such committee for a convenient hour on the day which appears to him to be 15 the earliest convenient date for the purpose and the meeting held in pursuance of such summons shall be for all purposes a triennial meeting held on a date appointed under this section.
(5) Where the members of a vocational education committee are required by this Act to be elected by two or more local authorities 20 and in any election year such local authorities do not all hold such elections on the same day, the date of the completion of the election of such members shall for the purposes of this section be the last day on which any of such elections is held.

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—(1) Every vocational education committee shall, at its 25 first meeting and also at every triennial meeting, elect one of its members to be the chairman of such committee.

(2) Whenever the office of chairman of a vocational education committee becomes vacant through the death, resignation, or disqualification of the chairman, such committee shall, at its 30 next meeting after the occurrence of such vacancy, elect one of its members to be the chairman of such committee.
(3) Every person elected to be the chairman of a vocational education committee shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, hold office as such chairman until the com- 35 meneement of the next triennial meeting of such committee after the meeting at which he is so elected.
• (4) The chairman of a vocational education committee may at any time resign his office as such chairman by letter addressed to • the chief executive officer of such committee and every such re- 40 signation shall take effect at the commencement of the meeting of such committee commencing next after the receipt of such resignation by such officer.
(5) Whenever the chairman of a vocational education com­ mittee ceases during his term of office as such chairman to be a 45 ipember of such committee he shall be disqualified for being and shall forthwith cease to be such chairman.

(6) Whenever, at an election of the chairman of a vocational education committee, there is an equality of votes for two or more persons, one of those persons shall be elected by lot.

50 Vice-chairman of vocational education committees.

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—(1) A vocational education committee may at any time, if it so thinks fit, elect one of its members to be the vice-chairman of such committee.

(2) Whenever a vice-chairman is elected by a vocational education committee, the provisions of this Act in relation to the 55 term of office, resignation, and disqualification of the chairman of such committee shall apply in respect of such vice-chairman in like manner as they apply in respect of such chaiiman.
Temporary - chairman at first meetings and triennial meetings.

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—(1) At the first meeting of a vocational education com­ mittee the chief executive officer of such committee or, if there is (JO no such officer, the person acting at such first meeting as secretary ■o such committee shall, until the chairman of such committee has been elected, act as chairman of such meeting.
10 i (2) At every triennial meeting of a vocational education com­ mittee the chief executive officer of such committee shall, until the chairman of such committee has been elected, act as chair­ man of such meeting.

5 (3) A person acting in pursuance of this section as chairman of a meeting of a vocational education committee shall not be entitled to vote on any question which is to be decided by a vote of the members of such committee.
The quorum for a meeting of a vocational education Procedure at 10 committee shall be one-fourth of the whole number of the mem- meetings of bers of such committee.

committees.
15 (2) At a meeting of a vocational education committee— (a) the chairman of such committee shall, if he is present, be the chairman of the meeting; (6) if the chairman of such committee is not present or if the office of chairman is vacant, the vice-chairman (if any) of such committee shall, if he is present, be the chairman of the meeting; 20 (c) if the chairman of such committee is not present or the office of chairman is vacant and there is no vice-chair­ man of such committee or the vice-chairman is not pre­ sent, the members of the committee who are present shall (subject to the provisions of this Act in relation to the first meeting and to triennial meetings) choose one of their number to be the chairman of the meeting.
(3) Every question at a meeting of a vocational education committee shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting on the question, and in the case of an equal division of votes the chairman of the meeting shall 30 have a second or casting vote save where the question is the 25 election of the chairman of the committee.

(4) A vocational education committee may act notwithstand­ ing one or more vacancies amongst its members.
(5) An inspeett r shall be entitled to be present at any meeting 35 of a vocational education committee or of a sub-committee of any such committee and to address such meeting, but shall not be entitled to vote on any matter to be decided at such meeting.
(6) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may by regulations made by him under this Act prescribe the procc- £0 dure to be observed at meetings of vocational education com­ mittees and the business to be transacted at all or any such meetings.

(7) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of regulations made thereunder, every vocational education committee shall 45 regulate, by standing orders or otherwise, the procedure to be observed and the business to be transacted at its meetings.
19.—Whenever a meeting of a vocational education committee Meeting- is abandoned owing to failure to obtain a quorum, the names of Abandoned for the members attending at the time and place appointed for such "'ant of quorum.
50 meeting shall be recorded forthwith and, for the purposes of the provisions ot this Act relating to disqualification of members by absence from meetings and the provisions of this Act relating to the payment of travelling expenses of members of certain com­ mittees, a meeting of such committee shall be deemed to have 55 been held at such time and place and the members whose names are so recorded shall be deemed to have attended such meeting.
20*—(1) Every vocational education committee shall keep, in Minutes, a book to be provided by it for the purpose, minutes of the pro- registers, and to be ceedings at every meeting of such committee, and all such 60 minutes shall be signed either at the meeting to which they relate kept hL by the chairman of that meeting or at the next meeting* by the committees- chairman of such last-mentioned meeting and when so signed shall be admitted in evidence.
11 (2) Every vocational education committee shall keep all such registers and records as shall be prescribed, and all such registers and records shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times by an inspector.

(3) Every vocational education committee shall make to the 5« Minister such reports and returns and furnish to the Minister such information as he may from time to time require.

Sub-committees of vocational education committees.


21.—(1) A vocational education committee may from time to time appoint such and so many sub-committees as it thinks proper for the exercise or performance of any of its powers, duties, and 10 functions wrhich in its opinion can be better or more conveniently exercised or performed by a sub-committee.

Payment of travelling expenses to members of certain committees.
(2) A sub-committee appointed by a vocational education com­ mittee may, at the discretion of such committee, consist exclusively of persons who are members of such committee or partly of per- 15> sons who are and partly of persons who are not members of such committee.

(3) The acts of every sub-committee of a vocational education committee shall be subject to confirmation by such committee save where such committee with the sanction of the Minister dis- 20- penses with the necessity for such confirmation.
22.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, every vocational education committee for a county vocational education area shall, as soon as may be after the 30th day of June in each year, pay to every member of such committee or of any sub-corn- 25- mittee thereof such contribution (if any) as is authorised by the rules contained in the Second Schedule to this Act towards the expenses incurred during such preceding twelve months by such member in attending the meetings of sueh committee (if he is a member thereof) or of any sub-committee thereof of which he 30" is a member.
(2) No contribution shall be payable under this section in respect of any period of twelve months ending on the 30th day of June in any year to a member of a vocational education com­ mittee in respect of his attendance at meetings of such committee 35- held during such period unless he has attended at least five such meetings.
(3) No contribution shall be payable under this section in respect of any period of twelve months ending on the 30th day of June in any year to a member of a sub-committee appointed 40> by a vocational education committee in respect of his attendances at meetings of such sub-committee held during such period unless— (а) the Minister, on the application of such committee, authorises contributions to be paid under this sec- ^ tion to members of such sub-committee; and (б) such sub-committee has held not less than five meetings during such period; and (c) such member has attended not less than five meetings of such sub-committee during such period.
(4) For the purposes of this section the period commencing on the day appointed under this Act for the holding of the first meeting of a vocational education committee and ending on the 30th day of June, 1931, shall be deemed to be a period of twelve months.
^0 55 (5) Any person who knowingly makes or allows to be made a false statement for the purpose of obtaining the payment to him­ self or another of a sum under or in pursuance of this section, shall be guilty of an offence under this section, and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding gQ.. fifty pounds, or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding one year.
(6) Any person who is convicted of an offence under this 12 section shall thereafter be disqualified from being elected or being a member of any vocational education committee or a sub-com­ mittee thereof, or of any council, body, or committee which is a local authority within the meaning of the Act of 1925, and shall 5 also be disqualified from holding any office or employment under any vocational education committee or any sueh council, body, or committees as aforesaid.

23.
23.

—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, every voca- officers of tional education committee shall appoint a chief executive officer vocational 10 and such other officers and servants as it shall from time to time education think necessary for the due performance of its powers and duties committees, under this Act.

(2) The numbers, qualifications, salaries or remuneration, and appointment of all officers shall be subject to the approval of the 15 Minister.
(3) Every vocational education committee shall take from its chief executive officer and any other of its officers who receives or pays, money on its behalf such security as may be directed by the Minister.

20 (4) A vocational education committee may dismiss any servant cf such committee and, with the approval of the Minister, remove any officer of such committee.
25 (5) A vocational education committee shall be deemed to be a local authority within the meaning of the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 (No.

39 of 1926), and for that purpose the expression “ the Minister ” in that Act shall in rela­ tion to a vocational education committee mean the Minister for Education.

24.
—(1) Where the functional area of a committee appointed First chief 30 under sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Act of 1889 or sub- executive officers section (1) of section 14 of the Act of 1899 or of a joint commit- commjttees# tee appointed under sub-section (2) of the said section 14 is co­ terminous with a vocational education area, the person who on the day before the first meeting of the vocational education com- 35 mittee for such vocational education area is the chief executive officer of such committee or joint committee shall on the day of such meeting become the chief executive officer of such vocational education committee.
(2) In the case of a vocational education committee for a 40 county vocational education area to which no person by virtue of the foregoing provisions becomes the chief executive officer, the secretary of the council of the county which is or includes such vocational educational area shall at the first meeting of such committee act as secretary to such committee.

45 25.—(1) E very vocational education committee shall be Application of deemed to be a local body within the meaning of Part IV.
of the certjun Act of 1925, as amended by the Act of 1927, and Part IV.
of the Act of 1925 as so amended shall apply to vocational education amendedi committees and their officers accordingly, subject to the following 50 modifications, that is to say, for the purposes of section 47 of the Act of 1925 as amended by section 9 of the Act of 1927 and of section 50 of the Act of 1925— as ° 55 60 (а) the vocational education committee for a borough voca­ tional education area shall be deemed to be a com- mittee of the council of the county borough which is such area; (б) the vocational education committee for an urban district vocational education area shall be deemed to be a com­ mittee of the council of the urban district which it such area; (c) the vocational education committee for a county voca­ tional education area which does not include any urban district (whether there is or is not in the same county a scheduled urban district) shall be deemed to be a 18 committee of the council of the county which is or which includes such area; {d) the vocational education committee for a county voca­ tional education area which includes one or more urban districts which are not scheduled urban districts 5 (whether there is or is not in the same county a scheduled urban district) shall be deemed to be a joint committee of the council of the county which is or includes such area and the council of every urban district included in such area.
10 (2) Every vocational education committee shall be deemed to be a local authority within the meaning of section 60 of the Act of 1925 as amended by section 13 of the Act of 1927 and of sections 61, 62, 70 and 71 of the Act of 1925, and the said sections 60 (as so amended) 61, 62, 70 and 71 shall apply to vocational 15 education committees and their members and officers accordingly subject to the following modifications, that is to say in the said section 60 as so amended the expression “ the Minister ” shall mean the Minister for Education, and in the said section 71 the expression “ the Minister for Education ” shall be substituted 201 for the expression 11 the Minister for Local Government and Public Health ” wdierever the latter expression occurs.
(3) Save as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, no vocational education committee shall be deemed for the purposes of any enactment (including the Act of 1925 as amended by the 25- Act of 1927) to be a local authority within the meaning of the said'Aet of 1925 as so amended or to be a committee of a county council, an urban district council, or a borough council, or a joint committee of any two or more of such councils.

30 26.
—The Minister may by order, either upon or without any suggestion or complaint from a vocational education committee, remove from his office or employment any paid officer or servant of a vocational education committee (whether appointed by or transferred by this Act to such committee) whom he considers 35 unfit or incompetent to perform his duties, or who at any time refuses or wilfully neglects to perform his duties or any of them, and may direct that a fit and proper person be appointed in his place in accordance with the law relating to appointments to such office or employment.
40 Removal of officers and servants by the Minister.

Acquisition of lands by vocational education committees.

27.

— (1) A vocational education committee may, with the approval of the Minister and subject to regulations made by him under this Act.

purchase or take on lease any land for the pur­ poses of any of their powers or duties under this Aet.
(2) For the purposes of the acquisition of land by a vocational 45- education committee, sections 203, 214. and 215 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, as amended by section 8 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896, and section 68 of the Act of 1925, shall apply as i£ herein re-enacted and made applicable to voca­ tional education committees with the modification that the adver- 50 tisements mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 203 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, may be published in any month, and that the notices mentioned in the said sub-section shall be served in the next succeeding month.
(3) In this section the expression “ land ” includes any ease- 55 ment in, to.

or over land.

28.

—(1) A vocational education committee may, with the approval of the Minister, be constituted trustees of anj' educa­ tional endowment or charity established (whether before or after the passing of this Act) for purposes connected with continuation 60 ' or technical or both continuation and technical education.
(2) A vocational education committee shall have power to accept any real or personal property given to it as an educational endowment generally or upon trust for any purposes connected with continuation or technical or both continuation and technical 65 • education.

14 Acceptance of educational endowments by committees.
(3) Nothing in this section shall enable a vocational education committee to be trustees for or to accept any educational endow­ ment, charity, or trust the purposes of which are inconsistent with this Act or with the principles on which such committee is 5 required by or under this Act to provide continuation education and technical education.

PART in.

Continuation Education and Technical Education.

29.
29.

—It shall be the duty of every vocational education com­ mittee— 10 15 (a) to establish and maintain in accordance with this Act a suitable system of continuation education in its area and to provide for the progressive development of such system; and (b) to supply or aid the supply in accordance with this Act of technical education in its area.

Duties generally of vocational education committees.

30.
30.

—(1) Every vocational education committee may, and if so required by the Minister shall, from time to time prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme setting forth the general policy of such committee in relation to continuation education and 20 technical education respectively and showing the mode in which •t proposes, in pursuance of such policy, to exercise and perform its powers and duties under this Act.
(2) In preparing a scheme under this section a vocational education committee shall consider all such representations as 25 shall be made to it in relation to such scheme by persons resident in its area having interest and experience in educational matters, and by persons concerned in local manufactures, trades and industries, and by persons qualified to represent the views of employers and employees in matters of educational interest 30 relating to such area.

31.
31.

—In performance of the duties in relation to continuation education imposed on vocational education committees by this Act every such committee may do all or any of the following things, that is to say:— 35 (a) establish and maintain continuation schools in its area; (6) establish and maintain in its- area courses of instruction in the nature of continuation education; (c) assist in maintaining schools in its area in which con­ tinuation education is provided.

General schemes.
General schemes.

General powers in relation to continuation education.
40 32.—Where a continuation school or a course of instruction maintained or provided by a vocational education committee is attended by young persons who have the prospect of employment in a particular trade, business, or occupation, it shall be the duty of such vocational education committee to register and classify 45 such young persons and to provide in the curriculum of such school or in the instruction given in such course (as the case may be) for the educational requirements of such young persons having regard to the nature of the said employment.
Registration of certain persons attending continuation schools and courses.

33.—In performance of the duties in relation to technical 50 education imposed on vocational education committees by this Act, every such committee may do all or any of the following things, that is to say :— General powers in relation to technical education.
(a) establish and maintain or assist in maintaining technical schools within its area; _55 (b) establish and maintain or assist in establishing and main­ taining in its area courses of instruction in the nature of technical education; (c) contribute to the expenses incurred by persons resident in 15 .
its area in obtaining technical education at schools or courses outside such area; (d) with the special sanction of the Minister, aid persons resident in its area in obtaining further education at technical colleges or central technical institutions oi 5 technical training colleges or other centres of advanced technical education within or outside such area.

Existing supply of technical education.


34.—A vocational education committee, when exercising the powers in relation to technical education conferred on it by this Act, shall have regard to any existing supply of technical eduea- 10 tion in its area.

Determination of subject- matter of powers.

Deficiency in supply of continuation education or technical education.
35.—Where a vocational education committee exercises or proposes to exercise its powers under this Act for a particular purpose which is a purpose authorised by this Act, and a ques­ tion arises as to whether such purpose is a purpose relating to 15 continuation education or is a purpose relating to technical educa­ tion, such question shall be referred by such committee to the Minister and the decision of the Minister thereon shall be final and conclusive.
36.—(1) Whenever, in the opinion of the Minister, a vocational 20 education committee is not making adequate and suitable provi­ sion for the supply of continuation education in its area, the Minister may require such committee to make such particular provision for the supply of such education as he may, having regard to the moneys available for such committee, think fit to 25 specify and require, and thereupon it shall become and be the duty of such committee to comply in all respects with such requi­ sition.
(2) Whenever, in the opinion of the Minister, a vocational education committee is not making adequate and suitable provi- 30 sion for the supply of technical education in its area, the Minister may require such committee to make such particular provision for the supply of such education as he may, having regard to the moneys available for such committee, think fit to specify and require, and thereupon it shall become and be the duty of such 35 committee to comply in all respects wdth such requisition.
(3) A requisition made by the Minister under this section may require a vocational education committee to provide continuation education or technical education (as the case may be) by making with another vocational education committee an arrangement of 40 such character and containing such terms as are specified in such requisition whereby continuation education or technical educa­ tion (as the case may be) provided by such last-mentioned committee is made available for persons resident in the area of such first-mentioned committee, and where any such requisition 45 is so made it shall be the duty of both such committees to enter into and give effect to such arrangement.
Higher technical 37.—(1) A vocational education committee for a borough voca- tional education area may, subject to compliance with the next education.
following sub-section of this section, establish and maintain in its 50 area a school (in this section referred to as a day technical college) having for its main object the provision of education in the general principles of science, commerce, or art suited to the requirements of persons employed in positions of control or responsibility in trade or industry.
55 (2) The following provisions shall apply to and be complied with in every day technical college, that is to say:— (a) such college shall not provide for the training in the technique of any trade or craft save to such extent as the same may be ancillary to its main object and be 60 approved of by the Minister; and (5) admission to such college shall be confined to students who at the beginning of the school year are not less than sixteen years in age; and 16 (c) students enrolled at such college shall be charged such fees as may be approved of by the Minister; and (d) no student shall be admitted to such college who does not possess such qualifications as may be prescribed by the Minister.
5 (3) Persons selected or accepted by the Minister for training as teachers shall be afforded such facilities at a day technical college on such terms and in such manner as the Minister con- • siders reasonable.

10 38.—A vocational education committee may, with the approval of the Minister, establish or assist in establishing scholarships tenable within or outside its area and fix the amounts and tenure of such scholarships and the conditions on which they may be awarded and held.
Establishment at scholarships.

25 39._Any two or more vocational education committees may, subject to the approval of the Minister, enter into an arrange­ ment for the joint exercise of any of their powers under this Part of this Act on such terms and conditions as may be agreed between them, and if any question arises between such com- 20 mittees in relation to such arrangement the matter in question shall be referred to the Minister whose decision thereon shall be final.

Co-operation between committees.


40._(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a vocational education committee may, in accordance with a scale approved 25 by the Minister, fix and charge fees for attendance at all or any schools and courses of instruction maintained or provided by it under this Act.

Fees to be charged by committees.


(2) No fees shall be charged by a vocational education com­ mittee for the admission to a compulsory course of instruction 30 provided by it under Part V. of this Act of persons who attend such course in pursuance of an obligation imposed on them by the said Part V. (3) No fees shall be charged by a vocational education com­ mittee for the admission to a course of instruction provided by it 35 under Part VI.
of this Act of persons who attend such course in pursuance of an obligation imposed on them by the said Part VI.

(4) A vocational education committee may, with the approval of the Minister, remit either in whole or in part any fees which it is entitled to charge under this section, 40 45 50 PART IV.

Finance of Vocational Education Committees.
41.—(1) For the purposes of this Part of this Act— (а) the council of a county borough shall be the rating authority for the borough vocational education area which is co-terminous with such county borough; and (б) the council of a scheduled urban district shall be the rating authority for the urban district vocational education area which is co-terminous with such scheduled urban district; and (c) the council of a county shall be the rating authority for the county vocational education area which is co­ terminous with or is included in such county.
(2) In this Part of this Act the expression “ area of charge ” when used in relation to a rating authority means the vocational 55 education area for which such rating authority is the rating authority.

Hating authorities and areas of charge.

Annual local contributions to vocational education committees.

42.
42.

—(1) There shall be paid, in every local financial year com­ mencing after the passing of this Act by the rating authority for a vocational education area to the vocational education commit­ tee for such area, such sum (in this Act referred to as the annual local contribution) as may be demanded by such committee under 5 this Part of this Act in respect of such year.
(2) The amount of the annual local contribution payable to a vocational education committee in respect of any particular local financial year— (a) shall not be less than a sum (in this Part of this Act 10 referred to as the minimum annual liability) equal, where the rating authority is the council of a county borough or of a scheduled urban district, to the amount of a rate of three pence in the pound on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commence- ment of such year or, where the rating authority is the council of a county, to the amount of a rate of two pence in the pound on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of such year; and (ft) shall not exceed a sum (in this Part of this Act referred 20 to as the maximum annual liability) equal, where the rating authority is the council of a county borough or of a scheduled urban district, to the amount of a rate of the number of pence in the pound specified for such year in Part I. of the Third Schedule to this Act 25 on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of such year or, where the rating authority is the council of a county, to the amount of a rate of the number of pence in the pound specified for such year in Part II.
of the Third Schedule to this 30 Act on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of such year.
(3) Every annual local contribution shall, where the rating authority is the council of a county borough or of a scheduled urban district, be raised by means of or out of any rate or fund 35 applicable for the purposes of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, and in the case of a rate, assessed in the manner provided by that Act, and, where the rating authority is the council of a county, be raised equally over the whole of the area of charge by means of the poor rate.
40 Preparation of annual schemes by committees.

43.
—(1) Every vocational education committee shall, on or before the 1st day of December in even- local financial year, pre­ pare and submit to the Minister an estimate (in this Act referred to as an annual scheme) in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars of— 45 (a) the moneys required to meet the expenses of such com­ mittee in the exercise of its powers and performance of its duties during or in respect of the then next ensuing local financial year; and (b) the receipts of such committee during or in respect of the 50 then next ensuing local financial year, having regard (amongst other matters) to the minimum annual liability and the maximum annual liability of the rat­ ing authority in respect of such year.
(2) .

The Minister may, in respect of every annual scheme sub- 55 mitted to him under this section, either approve of such scheme without modification or approve of such scheme with such modifi­ cations as he shall think fit to make therein or refuse to approve of such scheme.
(3) Whenever the Minister refuses to approve of an annual 60 scheme, the committee by which such scheme wras prepared shall forthwith prepare and submit to the Minister a new annual scheme, and this section shall apply to such newr scheme in like manner as it applies to the original scheme.

(4) When an annual scheme has been approved by the Minister, 65 whether with or without modification, it shall be the duty of the 18 Demand by committee for annual local contribution.
committee by which such scheme was prepared to carry into effect such scheme as so approved.

44.
—(1) When the Minister has considered an annual scheme he shall issue to the vocational education committee by which 5 such scheme was prepared a certificate in the prescribed form authorising such committee to demand from the rating authority for the vocational education area of such committee an annual contribution in respect of the local financial year to which such annual scheme relates of such amount as the Minister shall think 10 proper to specify in such certificate having regard to the esti­ mates of expenses and receipts contained in such scheme, but not less than the minimum annual liability nor more than the maximum annual liability of such rating authority in respect of such year.
15 (2) Every vocational education committee shall, upon receiv­ ing from the Minister a certificate under this section, forthwith send to the rating authority for the vocational education area of such committee a demand in the prescribed form for an annual local contribution of the amount specified in such certificate for 20 or in respect of the local financial year to which such certificate relates.
(3) Every rating authority to which a demand is made under this section by the vocational education committee for the voca­ tional education area for which such authority is the rating 25 authority shall pay to such committee at the prescribed time or times and in the prescribed manner the amount of such demand without any deduction whatsoever.

45.

—(1) Every vocational education committee shall at its first meeting appoint a banking company to act as treasurer of 30 such committee.
Treasurer of vocational education committees.

(2) A vocational education committee may from time to time accept the resignation or revoke the appointment of a banking company as treasurer and appoint another such company as treasurer.

35 (3) A vocational education committee may take from its treasurer such security as may be approved by the Minister.

.
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(4) When appointing a treasurer, a vocational education committee shall fix with such treasurer the amount of interest to be allowed for money from time to time lying to the credit 40 of such committee with such treasurer.

46.

_(1) Every vocational education committee shall establish and maintain in the hands of the treasurer of such committee a fund to be known and in this Act referred to as the vocational education fund of sueh committee.

Vocational education fund.


45 ^2) All sums received by a vocational education committee under this Act from any source shall be paid to the treasurer of such committee and, save as is hereinafter otherwise provided, the receipt alone of such treasurer shall be a good discharge to the person paying the same, and all such sums shall be paid by 5Q such treasurer into the vocational education fund of such com­ mittee.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub­ section of this section, the receipt of an officer of a vocational education committee duly authorised by such committee to cc receive payments of a particular class shall be a good discharge to a person making a payment of such class to such officer, but it shall be the duty of such officer forthwith to pay the amount of such payment to the treasurer of such committee.
(4) No payments shall be made out of the vocational education gO fund of a vocational education committee except such payments as are duly authorised by such committee under this section and every such payment so authorised shall be made out of such fund by the treasurer of such committee and not otherwise.
19 (5) A vocational education committee may authorise payments out of the vocational education fund maintained by it to be made for all or any of the following purposes, and for no other purpose whatsoever, that is to say:— (а) to defray expenditure incurred by such committee under 5 and in accordance with an annual scheme prepared by it and approved by the Minister; or (б) to defray administrative and incidental expenses incurred for the purposes of this Act by such committee with the previous consent, either general or special, of the 10 Minister; or (c) to defray any other expenditure required of authorised by this Act to be incurred by such committee.
(6) The Minister may from time to time authorise a vocational education committee to incur, in any local financial year, adminis- 15. trative and incidental expenses up to but not exceeding an amount specified by the Minister in such authority, and every such authority shall for the purposes of this section operate as a general previous consent to all administrative and incidental expenses incurred by such committee in such year up to the amount so 20 > specified.

47.
47.

—A vocational education committee may, with the consent of the Minister, borrow by means of bank overdraft or otherwise money for the purposes of the vocational education fund main­ tained by it.

25* 48.
—(1) Where a vocational education committee proposes to incur expenditure under this Act on works the cost of which ought, in the opinion of the Minister, by reason of their per­ manent character to be spread over a term of years, such com­ mittee may, with the consent of the Minister, spread the defrayal 30 of such expenditure over such term of years as the Minister may approve, and may for that purpose borrow money on the security of the vocational education fund maintained by it and charge that fund with payment of the principal moneys so borrowed and the interest thereon.
35 (2) The powers of a vocational education committee under this section shall be exercised in accordance with regulations made by the Minister.
(3) A vocational education committee borrowing money under this section may, where it so thinks proper, borrow such money 40 from the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, and those Commissioners may, if they think fit, lend such money to such committee under the Public Works (Ireland) Acts, 1831 to 1886. and notwithstanding anything in those Acts such loan may be made for such term as the Commissioners think fit.

45 49.
—(1) Where a vocational education committee, with the consent of the Minister, proposes to incur or has incurred expense under this Act on works of a permanent character, the rating authority for the vocational education area of such com­ mittee may, with the consent of the Minister for Local Govern- 50 ment and Public Health, make a grant to such committee of the whole or part of such expense (whether the same has or has not then been actually incurred) or of any undischarged balance owing by such committee in respect of such works or of moneys borrowed to meet the expense thereof.
55 (2) Where a vocational education committee is, by virtue of this Act, under a liability in respect of a loan contracted before the passing of this Act and expended on works of a permanent character, the rating authority for the vocational education area of such committee may, with the consent of the Minister for Local 60» Government and Public Health, at any time make a grant to such committee for or towards the discharge of the amount of such liability then outstanding.
(3) A grant made by a rating authority to a vocational educa- 20 Powers oi borrowing.

Borrowing by vocational education committee for permanent works.

Grants by rating authorities.

tion committee under this section shall be applied by sueh com­ mittee for the purpose for which such grant was made and for no other purpose.
(4) A rating authority may borrow for the purposes of making 5 a grant under this section— (а) in the case of the council of a county, as if those pur­ poses were purposes for which it is authorised to borrow under Article 22 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, and money borrowed under this section by the council of a county for the purposes of any such grant shall not be reckoned as part of the total debt of such council for the purposes of the said Article; and (б) in the case of the council of a county borough or a scheduled urban district, as if those purposes were purposes for which it is authorised to borrow under the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, and money borrowed under this section by such council for the purposes of any such grant shall not be reckoned as part of the total debt of such council for the purposes of any limitation on its borrowing powers.
10 15 20 50.—Any moneys (including any moneys representing the pro­ duce of a rate) standing to the credit of a vocational education committee on the 31st day of March, 1931, may, notwithstanding 5 that such moneys are required by any enactment repealed by this Act to be applied for a particular purpose, be applied by such committee for any purpose for which it is authorised to expend moneys under this Act.

Application of certain moneys.


30 51.—-The Minister may, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make grants to vocational education committees in aid of expenditure under annual schemes in accordance with regulations made by the Minister with the approval of the Minister for Finance.

Application of parliamentary grants.


35 52._A vocational education committee may, in accordance with regulations made by the Minister, defray the expenses of members of such committee appointed by it to attend meetings or conferences held for the purpose of discussing matters relating to continuation education and technical education oi eithei of Expenses of delegates to certain conferences.

40 them.
40 them.

53._(1) A vocational education committee may, with the con­ sent of the Minister, subscribe to any institution, agency, or organisation which includes amongst its functions the collection and communication of information with respect to employments Subscription to certain agencies and associations.

45 open to persons under the age of eighteen years.
(2) A vocational education committee may, with the consent of the Minister, subscribe to any association or institution con­ cerned in questions of continuation education and technical educa­ tion or either of them.
5Q 54.—Where a teacher in the employment of a vocational educa­ tion committee is attending classes for the training and certification of teachers, or is attending special courses pro\ ided in a central technical school or in a university college or at any other centre approved by the Minister, and such attendance in- 55 volves the absence of such teacher from his home, such committee may, with the consent of the Minister, make grants to such teacher in aid of the expenses incurred by him in attending such courses or classes.
55._Sub-section (7) of section 51 of the Local Government 60 (Ireland) Act, 1898 shall not apply in respect of any debt, claim, or demand payable by a vocational education committee.

21 Travelling expenses and maintenance of teachers attending certain classes.

N on-application of sub-section (7) of section 5t of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898.

Audit of accounts of vocational education committees.
56.—The accounts of every vocational education committee shall be audited by an auditor appointed by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health and the following enact­ ments, that is to say, sections 11 to 15 of the Local (government (Ireland) Act, 1871, sub-section (2) of section 63 of the Local 5 Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, and sections 20 and 21 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1902, as amended or adapted by or under any subsequent enactment shall apply to the audit and auditor of the accounts of such committees in the same manner as such enactments as so amended or adapted apply to 10 the audit and auditor of the accounts of the public bodies specified therein.
PART V. Enforcement of Continuation Education.

Interpretation of 57.—(1) In this Part of this Act the expression “young 15.

Act.

°f Person” does n°t delude a person who attains the age of fifteen years on or before the day on which the district in which he resides commences to be a district to which this Part of this Act applies, and accordingly so much of this Part of this Act as relates to young persons shall not apply to a person so excluded 20’ from the said expression.
(2) References in this Part of this Act to the vocational educa­ tion committee for a district to which this Part of this Act applies shall be construed as references to the vocational education com­ mittee whose vocational education area is co-terminous with or 25 includes sueh district.
District to which 58.— (1) The Minister may, either on the application of the tins Part of this vocational education committee or on his own motion, make an pp 1 ' order declaring that a vocational education area or any parti- eular part of a vocational education area shall, as on and from the day specified in that behalf in such order, be a district to which this Part of this Act applies, and thereupon such voca­ tional education area or such particular part thereof shall, as on and from such day, and so long as such order remains in force, be 35 a district to which this Part of this Act applies.
(2) Whenever the Minister makes an order under the foregoing sub-section declaring a particular area to be a district to which this Part of this Act applies hnd such area is neither co-terminous with nor included in a county borough or urban district men­ tioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, he shall, after consul- 40* tation with the Minister for Justice, by the same order prescribe the rank and station of the officer of the Garda Siochana who is to be the enforcing authority for such district for the purposes of this Part of this Act.
(3) The Minister may at any time by order revoke or amend 45- an order previously made by him under sub-section (1) of this section, but he shall not revoke or amend an order made after consultation with the Minister for Justice without consulting such Minister in relation to such revocation or amendment.
(4) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall 50 be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat annulling such order, such order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything 55 previously done under sueh order.
59.—(1) In every district to which this Part of this Act applies, the vocational education committee for such district shall, in every local financial year, provide such and so many courses of instruction (in this Act distinguished as compulsory courses) in 60' the nature of continuation education as such committee shall consider necessary having regard to the requirements of the young persons resident in such district.

22 Courses of instruction provided by vocational education committees.
(2) The vocational education committee for a district to which this Part of this xVct applies may, if and when it thinks fit so to do and without prejudice to its obligation to provide compulsory courses, provide in such district in any local financial year such 5 courses of instruction (in this Act distinguished as voluntary courses) in the nature of continuation education as such com­ mittee shall consider desirable having regard to the circumstances of such district and of the young persons resident therein (3) Every course of instruction provided under this section 10 shall consist, in the case of a compulsory course, of one hundred and eighty hours of instruction in each local financial year or, in the case of a voluntary course, of not less than one hundred and eighty hours of instruction in each local financial year and, in every case, shall be distributed, as regards times and seasons, in 25 sueh manner as may best suit the circumstances of the district.
(4) The instruction to be given at a course of instruction pro­ vided under this section shall be such as the vocational education committee providing such course shall, with the approval of the Minister, direct.

20 (5) Every vocational education committee providing courses of instruction under this section shall make public by advertisement or otherwise the dates for the commencement and termination of such courses and the times and places at which the instruction comprised in such courses will be given.
25 60 .—(1) Whenever the Minister is satisfied that a course of instruction provided by any person other than a vocational education committee affords efficient instruction in the nature of continuation education of a not lower standard lhan the courses of instruction which vocational education committees are 30 required by this Part of this Act to provide, the Minister may grant in respect of such course of instruction a certificate in the prescribed form that such course of instruction is an approved course for the purposes of this Part of this Act.
(2) Whenever the Minister is satisfied that a school (other 35 than a school which is for the time being recognised by the Minister as a secondary school and other than a national school) affords efficient continuation education, the Minister may grant in respect of such school a certificate in the prescribed form that such school is an approved school for the purposes of this 40 Part of this Act.
(3) Whenever the Minister is satisfied that a course of instruc­ tion or a school in respect of which he has granted a certificate under this section has ceased to be qualified to receive such certificate, the Minister may revoke such certificate, and there- - upon such certificate shall be delivered up to the Minister.
(4) The Minister may make or cause to be made such reason­ able inquiries and inspections as he shall think proper tor the purpose of satisfying himself whether any particular course of instruction or school is or is not or does or does not continue 50 to be qualified to receive a certificate under this section, and for the purpose of such inquiries and inspections an inspector may at all reasonable times enter any premises where a course of instruction in respect of which such certificate has been applied for or granted is held, or any school in respect of which such 55 certificate has been applied for or granted, and inquire into and inspect any such course of instruction or school.
Approved courses and approved schools.

61.—(1) Every parent of a young person resident in a district to which this Part of this Act applies shall, unless there is a reasonable excuse for not so doing, cause such young person to Obligation to attend for instruction.

5Q attend for instruction in accordance ■with this Part of this Act.
(2) For the purposes of thus Part of this Act, any one of the following, and only one of the following, attendances by a young person shall be attendance for instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act, that is to say:— 165 (a) attendance at a compulsory course of instruction provided 23 under this Part of this Act by the vocational education committee for the district in which the young person resides; (b) attendance at a voluntary course of instruction provided under this Part of this Act by the vocational educa- 5 tion committee for the district in which the young person resides; (c) attendance at a course of instruction in respect of which a certificate that it is an approved course of instruc­ tion for the purposes of this Part of this Act has been 10 granted by the Minister and has not been revoked; (d) full-time attendance at a school which is for the time being recognised by the Minister as a secondary school; (e) full-time attendance at a national school; if) full-time attendance at a school in respect of which a certificate that it is an approved school for the pur­ poses of this Part of this Act has been granted by the Minister and has not been revoked.
15 Reasonable excuse for failure to attend for instruction* 62.
—The following shall be reasonable excuses for failure to 20 attend for instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act, that is to say :— (a) that the young person has been prevented from so attend­ ing by sickness; (b) that the young person is receiving instruction suitable to 25 his age and circumstances otherwise than by atten­ dance for instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act; (c) that no compulsory course of instruction is provided by the vocational education committee for the district in 30 which the young person resides at any place within a distance of three miles from the residence of the young person measured according to the shortest way lawr- fully and conveniently available for him; (d) that the young person has been prevented from so attend- 35 ing by some other sufficient cause.
The enforcing authority.

63.
—(1) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the enforcing authority for a district to which this Part of this Act applies shall be— (o) in every such district which is co-terminous with or in- 40 eluded in a county borough or urban district men­ tioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, the vocational education committee for that district; and (6) in every such district which is neither co-terminous with nor included in any of the said county boroughs or 45 urban districts, the officer of the Garda Siochana for the time holding the rank and occupying the station prescribed in that behalf by the order made by the Minister under this Part of this Act declaring such district to be a district to which this Part of this Act 50 applies.
(2) It shall be the duty of every enforcing authority to keep the prescribed registers and records for the purposes of this Part of this Act and to permit such registers and records to be in­ spected at all reasonable times by an inspector.
55 (3) Every officer of the Garda Siochana who is an enforcing authority under this Part of this Act may exercise all or any of his functions as such enforcing authority by or through any one or more of the members of the Garda Siochana under his com­ mand and every member of the Garda Siochana by or through 60 whom such functions are so exercised shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act be an attendance officer of such enforcing authority.

24 Parents to furnish particulars of their children.

64.
—(1) Every person resident in a district to which this Part •of this Act applies shall, if required so to do by notice in writing in the prescribed form served on or left for him at his residence by the enforcing authority for such district, furnish to such 5 authority, w.thin the time and in the manner specified in such notice, the names and ages and the mode of education and other particulars specified in such notice of all young persons or any specified young person of whom he is the parent within the mean­ ing of this Aet 10 (2) Every person, resident in a district to which this Part of this Act applies, who fails to furnish in accordance with this section all or any particulars which he is duly required under this seetion so to furnish, or who so furnishes any such particulars which are to his knowledge false or misleading in any material 15 respect, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and on summary conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings.
65.

—(1) Every person carrying on business in a district to which this Part of this Act applies shall, if required so to do by 20 notice in writing in the prescribed form served on or left for him at his place of business by the enforcing authority for sucTi dis­ trict, furnish to such authority, w ithin the time and in the manner specified in such notice, the particulars specified in such notice of all young persons or any specified young person employed by Employers to furnish particulars.

25 him.
25 him.

(2) Every person carrying on business in a district to which this Part of this Act applies who fails to furnish in accordance with this section ali or any particulars which he is duly required under this section so to furnish or who so furnishes any such 30 particulars which are to his knowledge false or misleading in any material respect, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and on summary conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings.

66.
66.

—The Secretary of the Juvenile Advisory Committee for 35 an area which is or includes a district to which this Part of this Act applies shall, at the beginning of every quarter commencing on the 1st day of January, the 1st day of April, the 1st day of July, or the 1st day of October, furnish to the enforcing authority for such district copies of all particulars furnished to him in pur- 40 suance of sub-section (4) of section 15 of the School Attendance Act, 1926 (No.
17 of 1926) of the names and addresses of all persons resident in such district who will attain the age of four­ teen years during such quarter.

67.
67.

—(1) It shall be the duty of every employer of a young 4g person who is required by this Part of this Act to attend lor instruction and is in fact attending or desirous of attending a compulsory course of instruction provided under this Part of this Act to afford, so far as the same may be necessary, such young person time and liberty to attend such course of instruc- 50 tion without any deduction from wages or any addition to the hours of employment or reckoning such time as lost.
(2) If any employer fails or neglects to comply with the requirements of this section he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof.

55 in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.

Information to be furnished by Juvenile Advisory Committees.

Facilities for attending courses of instruction.

68.
68.

_(1) The principal teacher at every course of instruction or school; attendance at which is attendance tor instruction in 60 accordance with this Part of this Act and at which an\ young person resident in a district to which this Part ol this Act applies is enrolled or attending, shall communicate at the prescribed times and in the prescribed manner to the enforcing authority of such district the prescribed particulars of every such young person 25 Returns by principal teachers.
who is absent from such course or school and the prescribed particulars of .such absences.
(2) The principal teacher at every such course of instruction or school as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-section shall on demand supply in the prescribed form to any enforcing authority 5. for a district to which this Part of this Act applies the respective ages as stated in the registers of such course or school of all or any of the young persons attending such course or school who reside in such district and the prescribed particulars of the attendances at and absences from such course of instruction or 10' school of all or any of those young persons.
(3) When a young person who resides in a district to which this Part of this Act applies is removed from any such course of instruction or school as is hereinbefore mentioned the principal teacher at such course of instruction or school shall on demand 15- give to the parent of such young person a certificate in the pre­ scribed form stating the period during which such young person was attending such course of instruction or school, the number cf attendances and absences of such young person at or from such course of instruction or school during the prescribed portion 20 of such period, and the number of attendance hours made in each subject, and the parent of such young person shall exhibit such certificate to the principal teacher at any other such course of instruction or school to which he applies for the admission of such young person.
25 Duty to enforce attendance of young persons for instruction.

69.

—It shall be the duty of every enforcing authority of a dis­ trict to which this Part of this Act applies to take all such steps and institute all such proceedings as may be necessary for the enforcement of the attendance for instruction in accordance wit!

this Part of this Act of all young persons who reside in such 30< district.

I'arent to notify cause of absence.

Failure to comply with this Part of this Act.

70.
—Whenever a young person who resides in a district to which this Part of this Act applies is for the time being attending for instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act at any course of instruction or school but is absent from such instruction 35. or school on any day or days on which he should under this Part of this Act attend thereat, his parent shall as soon as possible and in any event not later than one week after the day or the first of the days (as the case may be) of such absence communicate in writing or in person to the principal teacher at such course of 40 instruction or school the cause of such absence.
71.
—(1) Whenever a young person who resides in a district to which this Part of this Act applies fails or neglects to attend for instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act and so far as is known to the enforcing authority for such district there is no 45, reasonable excuse for such failure or neglect, such authority shall serve on the parent of such young person a warning in the prescribed form— (а) requiring him within one week after such service to cause such young person to attend for instruction in 50 accordance with this Part of this Act, or to give to the authority a reasonable excuse for not so doing; and (б) informing him that in the event of his failure to comply with the terms of the foregoing paragraph proceedings will be instituted against him under this Act; and 55 (c) informing him that if, within three months after such proceedings, he again fails to comply with this Part of this Act further proceedings may be instituted against him without previous warning.
(2) If a parent does not comply with a warning duly served on 60 him under this section, he shall, unless he satisfies the Court that he has used all reasonable efforts to cause the young person to whom such warning relates to attend for instruction in accord­ ance with this Part of this Act, be guilty of an offence-under this 26 section and be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence (whether in rela­ tion to the same or another young person), to a fine not exceed­ ing forty shillings.
(3) Whenever a parent within three months after being con­ victed of an offence under the foregoing sub-section fails without reasonable excuse to cause the young person in respect of whom he was so convicted to attend for instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act, such parent shall, unless such young person has ceased to be a young person, be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.

72.
72.

— (1) Every vocational education committee which is an enforcing authority for the purposes of this Part of this Act shall by order appoint such officers as it thinks fit.

to be attendance officers for the purposes of this Part of this Act.

Attendance officers.


(2) Every attendance officer appointed under this section shall, when exercising any authority or power under this Part of this Act as such officer, produce on demand and show the ordei appointing him such officer to any person in relation to whom hf is exercising such authority or power.
(3) A document produced by a person claiming to be an attend­ ance officer and represented by him to be an order appointing him such officer and purporting on its face to be such order shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence that such person is an attendance officer.

\ 73.
\ 73.

—All warnings, notices, and other documents issued or served under this Part of this Act by an enforcing authority shall be sufficiently authenticated by the signature thereon of an attendance officer of such authority.

30 Authenticatio) of warnings, notices etc.. Prosecutions at suit of attendance officer.

Miscellaneous provisions as to prosecutions.

74.


—A prosecution for an offence under this Part of this Act may be instituted and prosecuted at the suit of any attendance officer of an enforcing authority as prosecutor.

35 40 45 50 55 60 75.
_(1) In a prosecution for an offence under this Part of this Act, the court before whom the prosecution is brought may, on the application of the prosecutor or the person prosecuted or on its own motion, order the parent or employer of the young person to whom the prosecution relates to produce such young person before the court at a specified time and place, and in the event of such parent or employer failing without reasonable excuse so to produce such young person the court may inflict on such parent or employer a fine not exceeding twenty shillings.
(2) In any prosecution for an offence under this Part of this Act the burden of proof of any of the following matters in rela­ tion to the young person to whom the prosecution relates shall lie on the person prosecuted, that is to say:— («) the age of the young person; (h) that there was a reasonable excuse for the non-attendance of the young person for instruction in accordance with this ‘Part of this Act on any particular day or during any particular period; .
(c) that the young person is receiving education suitable to a young person otherwise than by attending tor instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act.
(3) In any prosecution under this Part of this Act, a certificate purporting to be signed by the principal teacher at a course of instruction or school, attendance at which is attendance for instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act, stating that tne young person to whom the prosecution relates is or is not attending that course of instruction or school or stating that such young person did or did not attend that course of instruction or school on particular days shall, until the contrary is proved, be 27 evidence of such of the matters aforesaid as are stated in suehi certificate.
(4) In any prosecution for an offence under this Part of this Act a certificate purporting to be signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner that the young person to whom the prosecu- 5» lion relates is or was at any specified time suffering from a specified physical or mental malady or injury and that such malady or injury was of such a nature as to render the young person unfit to attend at a course of instruction or a school or that some person residing in the house in which such young IQ person resides is or was suffering from a specified physical malady or injury shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of such of the facts aforesaid as are stated in such certificate.
(5) In any prosecution for an offence under this Part of this Act.

the court may order the costs incurred in relation to such 15 prosecution by the prosecutor or the person prosecuted to be paid bv the person prosecuted or the prosecutor (as the case may lequire) and may fix the amount of such costs.

Expenses.

76.—All expenses incurred by a vocational education com­ mittee in carrying this part of this Act into effect shall be paid 20 out of the vocational education fund of such committee.

• PART VI.
• PART VI.

Enforcement of Technical Education.

Persons to whom this Part of this Act applies.

77.

—This Part of this Act applies to persons who have attained the age of sixteen years and have not attained the age of eighteen 25 years and the expression “ person to whom this Part of this Act applies ” shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

Interpretation of this Part of this Act.

District to which this Part of this Act applies.

78.
78.

—(1) References in this Part of this Act to the vocational education committee for a district to which this Part of this Act applies shall be construed as references to the vocational educa- 30 tion committee whose vocational education area is co-terminus with or includes such district.
(2) In this Part of this Act the expression “ apprenticeship committee ” means any committee hereafter set up by statute under that name to exercise functions in relation to apprentice- 35 ship either generally or in reference to particular trades.

79.
79.

—(1) The Minister may, if and when he thinks proper so to do, by order declare that any vocational education area or any particular part of a vocational education area shall as from a oate to be named in such order be a district to which this Part of 40 this Act applies, and thereupon such vocational education area or such particular part thereof shall, as from such date and so long as such order remains in force, be a district to which this Part of this Act applies.
(2) W henever the Minister makes an order under the foregoing 45 sub-section declaring a particular area to be a district to which this Part of this Act applies and such area is neither co-terminous with nor included in a county borough or urban district men­ tioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, he shall, after consul­ tation with the Minister for Justice, by the same order prescribe 50 the rank and station of the officer of the Garda Sfochana who is to be the enforcing authority for such district for the purposes of this Part of this Act.
(3) The Minister may at any time by order revoke or amend an order previously made by him under sub-section (1) of this 55 section but he shall not revoke or amend an order made after consultation with the Minister for Justice without consulting " dh such Minister in relation to such revocation or amendment.

(4) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be 60 2* Designate-!

trades.
trades.

after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twentv-ono days on which that House has sat annulling such order, such order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything 5 previously done under such order.

80.
—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, whenever the Minister makes an order under this Part of this Act declaring a particular area to be a distriet to which this Part of this Act applies, he shall, by another order, specify the trades which are 10 to be designated trades for the purposes of this Part of this Act in such district, and may from time to time by subsequent orders amend in such manner as he thinks proper the list of trades so specified, and every trade which is for the time being so specified by such first-mentioned order or by such order as so amended 15 shall, for the purposes of this Part of this Act, be a designated trade in such district.
(2) The Minister shall, before making an order under this section specifying a particular trade to be a designated trade for the purposes of this Part of this Act in a district to which this 20 Part of this Act applies or before amending such an order con­ sult.
where there is for the time being an apprenticeship com­ mittee for such trade whose functional area is co terminous with or includes such district, such apprenticeship committee or, where there is for the time being no such apprenticeship committee, 25 representatives of employers and employees in such district in such trade.

81.
81.

_(1) In every district to which this Part of this Act applies, the vocational education committee for such district shall, in every local financial year, provide such and so many on courses of instruction in the nature of technical education as such committee shall consider necessary ha\ing regaid to tin number and nature of the designated trades in such district.

Technical education in districts to which this Part of this Act applies.
(2) Every course of instruction provided under this section by the vocational education committee for a district to which 35 this Part of this Act applies in respect of a designated trade in such district shall consist of such number (not exceeding one hundred and eighty) of hours of instruction in each local finan­ cial year as the Minister shall, after consultation with, where there is for the time being an apprenticeship committee for such 40 trade whose functional area is co-terminous with or includes such district such apprenticeship committee, or, where there is tor the time being no such apprenticeship committee, representatives of employers and employees in such district in such trade, approve.
(3) Every course of instruction provided under this section 45 shall be distributed as regards times and seasons in such manner as may best suit the designated trades in respect of which it is provided.

(4) The instruction to be given at a course of instruction pro­ vided under this section shall be such as the vocational education 50 committee providing such course shall, with the approval of the Minister, direct.
(5) Every vocational education committee providing courses of instruction under this section shall make public by advertise­ ment or otherwise the dates for the commencement and termina- 55 tion of such courses and the times and places at which the instruction comprised in such courses will be given.

82.
82.

—(1) Every person to whom this Part of this Act applies and who is employed in a district to which this Part of this Act applies at a trade which is a designated trade in such district 60 shall attend the course of instruction provided for the purposes of such trade under this Part of this Act in such district by the vocational education committee.

Obligation to attend courses in technical education.
(2) If any person to whom this Part of this Act applies and who is employed in a district to which this Part of this Act 29 applies at a trade which is a designated trade in such district fails to attend the course of instruction which he is required by this section to attend, he shall, unless he satisfies the court that such failure was due to sickness or any other unavoidable cause, be guilty of an offence under this section and be liable on 5 summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
(3) If the parent of a person to whom this Part of this Act applies and who is employed in a district to which this Part of this Act applies at a trade which is a designated trade in such district has conduced to or connived at the failure of such person to attend the course of instruction which he is required by this section to attend, such parent shall, unless he satisfies the court that such failure was due to sickness or other unavoidable cause 15 not occasioned by such parent, be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the ease of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings and, in the ease of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
20 83.—(1) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the enforcing < uthority for a district to which this Part of this Act applies shall be— (а) in every such district which is co-tcrminous with or in­ cluded in a county borough or urban district mentioned 25 in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, the vocational education committee for that district; and (б) in every such district which is neither co-tcrminous with nor included in any of the said county boroughs or urban districts, thg officer of the Garda Siochana for 30 the time being holding the rank and occupying the station prescribed in that behalf by the order made by the Minister under this Part of this Aet declaring such district to be a district to which this Part of this Act applies.
35 (2) It shall be the duty of every enforcing authority to keep the prescribed registers and records for the purposes of this Part of this Act and to permit such registers and records to be inspected at all reasonable times by an inspector.
(3) Every officer of the G6rda Siochana who is an enforcing 40 authority under this Part of this Act may exercise all or any of his functions as such enforcing authority by or through any one or more of the members of the Garda Siochana under his com­ mand, and every member of the Garda Siochana by or through whom such functions are so exercised shall for the purposes of 45 this Part of this Act be antattendance officer of such enforcing .authority.
84.—(1) Every person carrying on in a district to which this Part of this Act applies a trade which is a designated trade in such district shall, if required so to do by notice in writing in 50 the prescribed form served on or left for him at his place of busi­ ness by the enforcing authority for such district, furnish to such authority within the time and in the manner specified in such notice the particulars specified in such notice of any persons employed by him who are persons to whom this Part of this Aet 55 applies.
(2) Every person carrying on in a district to which this Part of this Act applies a trade which is a designated trade in such district who fails to furnish in accordance with this section all or any particulars which he is duly required under this section 60 so to furnish, or who so furnishes any such particulars which arc to his knowledge false or misleading in any material respect, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings.
65 30 Facilities for \ attending courses of instruction.

1 85.—(1) It shall bo the duty of every employer of a person to whom this Part of this Act applies and who is attending or desires to attend, in pursuance of this Part of this Act.
a course of instruction provided under this Part of this Act to afford, so 5 far as the same may be necessary, such person time and liberty to attend sueh course of instruction without any deduction from wages or any addition to the hours of employment or reckoning such time as lost.
(2) If any employer fails or neglects to comply with the 10 requirements of this section he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty shil­ lings, and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
15 86.—It shall be the duty of the enforcing authority for a dis- Duty of trict to which this Part of this Act applies to take such steps and enforcing institute all such proceedings as may be necessary for the enforce- authorit>T- ment of this Part of this Act in such district.
87.—(1) E very vocational education committee which is an Attendance 20 enforcing authority for the purposes of this Part of this Act shall officers, by order appoint such officers as it thinks fit to be attendance officers for the purposes of this Part of this Act.
(2) Every attendance officer appointed under this section shall when exercising any authority or power under this Part of this Act as such officer produce on demand and show the order appointing him such officer to any person in relation to whom he exercising such authority or power.
(3) A document produced by a person claiming to be an atten­ dance officer and represented by him to be an order appointing him such officer and purporting on its face to be sueh order shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence that such person is an attendance officer.
88—All notices and other documents issued or served under Authentication this Part of this Act by an enforcing authority shall be sufficiently of notices, etc- authenticated by the signature thereon of an attendance officer of such authority.

89.—A prosecution for an offence under this Part of this Act may be instituted and prosecuted at the suit of any attendance officer of an enforcing authority as prosecutor.

Prosecution at suit of attendance officer.
90.—(1) In any prosecution under this Part of this Act, a Provisions in certificate purporting to be signed by a qualified medical practi- relation.to tioner that the person to whom the prosecution relates is or was Prosecutlon:?- at any specified time suffering from a specified physical or mental malady or injury and that such malady or injury was of such a nature as to render such person unfit to attend a course of instruction or that some person residing in the house in which such first-mentioned person resides is or was suffering from a specified physical or mental malady or injury shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of such of the facts aforesaid as are stated in such certificate.
(2) In any prosecution for an offence under this Part of this Act, the Court may order the costs incurred in relation to such prosecution by the prosecutor or the person prosecuted to be paid by the person prosecuted or the prosecutor (as the case may require) and may fix the amount of such costs.

91.—All expenses incurred by a vocational education com- Expenses, mittee in carrying this Part of this Act into effect shall be paid out of the vocational education fund of such committee.

31 The appointed day.


Transfer of functions etc.

vocational education committees.

to PAET VII.

Transitory Provisions in Relation to Committees of Technical Instruction.

92.

In this Part of this Act the expression “ the appointed day ” means the day appointed under Part II.
of this Act for 5 the first meeting of vocational education committees or, if different days are so appointed in respect of different such com­ mittees, means in relation to each sueh committee the dav so appointed for the first meeting of such committee.
93.—(1) In every vocational education area, all the functions, 10 powers, and duties under the Act of 1889, the Act of 1891 and he Act ot 1899 or any ot those Acts in relation to technical instruction in such area or any particular part thereof which, immediately before the appointed day, are vested in or imposed on the local authority for such area or such particular part ik ‘hereof and are exercised and performed by such local authority through or by means of a committee appointed or partly appointed ay it shall, on the appointed day, become and be transferred to end vested in or imposed on the vocational education committee for such area.
20 (2) As on and from the appointed day, sub-section (2) of section l of the Act of 1889 and section 14 of the Act of 1899 shall cease 10 have effect so far as they respectively relate to functions, powers, or duties transferred by this section to a vocational eduea- m m iion committee.

(3) Nothing in this section shall operate to transfer to a voca- • lonal education committee any powers of rating or of borrowing vested m a local authority.

Transfer of property to vocational education committees.
Transfer of debts and liabilities to vocational education committees.

94.—(1) l po„ the appointed day, all property, whether real or personal (including choses-in-act ion) which, immediately before the appointed day.
is vested in a local authority or a com­ mittee appointed under the Act of 1889 and the Act‘of 1899 or cither of those Acts by a local authority or two or more local authorities jointly and is so vested in relation to or for the pur­ poses of functions, powers, and duties transferred by this Part 35 thls ^ct or upon or under a trust relating to technical instruc­ tion shall, on the appointed day and without any conveyance or assignment but subject where necessary to transfer in the books oi any bank, corporation, or company, become and be vested in the vocational education committee to which such functions, powers, and duties are so transferred.
40 30 (2) Where any property transferred by this section consists of moneys, stocks, shares, or securities standing in the books of a bank, corporation, or company, such moneys, stocks, shares, and securities shall, upon the request of the vocational education 45 committee to which the same are transferred by this section, be transferred by such bank, corporation, or company into the name of such committee.
(3) Every chose-in-action transferred by this section may be sued upon, recovered, or enforced by the vocational education 50 committee to which such chose-in-action is so transferred in its own name and it shall not be necessary for such committee to give notice to the person bound by such chose-in-action of the transfer effected by this section.

95.—(1) Vpon the appointed day.


every debt and other 5 liability (including unliquidated liabilities arising from torts or breaches of contract) which, immediately before the appointed day.
is owing and unpaid or has been incurred and is undis­ charged by a local authority or a committee appointed under the Act of 1889 and the Act of 1899 or either of those Acts by a 60 local authority or two or more local authorities jointly and is so owing or has been so incurred in relation to or for the pur­ poses of functions, powers, and duties transferred by this Part of this Act shall, save as is hereinafter otherwise provided 32 become and be the debt or liability of the vocational education committee to which such functions, powers, and duties are so transferred and shall be paid or discharged by and may be recovered from or enforced against such committee accordingly.
5 (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub­ section, every pension, superannuation allowance, or gratuity which, immediately before the appointed day, is or has become payable by a local authority or two or more local authorities jointly to a person on account of his having been an officer of 10 such local authority or authorities or of a committee appointed under the Act of 1*889 and the Act of 1899 or either of those Acts by such local authority or local authorities and having been employed by such authority, authorities, or committee wholly or partly in relation to functions, powers, or duties trans- 15 ferred by this Part of this Act shall, on and after the appointed day.
be raised and paid by the same local authority or authorities and in the same manner as the same would have been required to be raised and paid if this Act had not been passed.

96.
—Every act, matter, or thing which was commenced before Continuance of 20 the appointed day by or against a local authority or a committee pending appointed under the Act of 1889 and the Act of 1899 or either transactions, of those Acts by a local authority or two or more local authorities jointly and remains pending or uncompleted on the appointed day and was so commenced in exercise or performance 25 or in relation to the exercise or performance of functions, powers, or duties transferred by this Part of this Act, may, on and after the appointed day.
be continued and completed by or against the vocational education committee to which such func­ tions.

duties, and powers are so transferred, and for that 30 purpose— («) in all legal proceedings to which any such local authority or any committee appointed as aforesaid is a party and which relate to the exercise or performance of such functions, powers, or duties and are pending on the appointed day.
such vocational education com­ mittee may be added as a party in lieu of such local authority or committee; and (b) all contracts and agreements to which any such local authority or any committee appointed as aforesaid is a party and which relate to such functions, powers.
and duties and are on the appointed day not fully executed or completed shall have effect on and after the appointed day as if such vocational education committee had been named as a party thereto in place °f such local authority or such committee.

35 40 45 97.
35 40 45 97.

—(1) Every person who, on the day before the appointed Transfer of day, is an officer of a local authority or of a committee appointed office1^ under the Act of 1889 and the Act of 1899 or either of those Acts by a local authority or two or more local authorities jointly and committees.
50 is employed by such authority or committee on duties relating wholly or partly to functions, powers, and duties transferred from such authority or committee by this Part of this Act shall, on the appointed day and subject to the provisions of this section, be transferred to and become and be an officer of the vocational 55 education committee to which such functions, powers, and duties are so transferred.
(2) Every officer transferred by this section shall, subject to the provisions of this section, perform in the service of the voca­ tional education committee to which he is so transferred the like 60 duties as he performed in the service from which he is so trans­ ferred.
(3) Every officer transferred by this section shall not, in the service of the vocational education committee to which he is so transferred, receive less remuneration or, subject to the provi- 65 sions of this section, be subject to less beneficial conditions of service than the remuneration to which he was entitled and the conditions of service to which he was subject in the* service from which he is so transferred.
33 (4) A vocational education committee may, with the approval of the Minister, re-distribute or re-arrange the duties to be per­ formed by officers transferred to to it by this section and every £uch officer shall be bound to perform the duties allotted to him on any such re-distribution or re-arrangement, and no such re- 5 distribution or re-arrangement shall be deemed to be a removal ±rom or abolition of office for the purposes of the enactments relating to superannuation and compensation for loss of office.
(5) A vocational education committee may, with the sanction of the Minister, and shall, when so directed by the Minister, jo abolish the office of any officer transferred to it by this section and every such officer whose office is so abolished shall, for the purpose of the enactments relating to superannuation and com­ pensation for loss of office, be deemed to have been removed from office by such committee for a cause other than misconduct or 15 incapacity.
(6) Every officer transferred by this section shall, for the pur­ pose of the enactments relating to superannuation and compen­ sation lor loss of office, be entitled to reckon his period of service with the local authority or committee from which he is so trans- 20 ferred as service with the vocational education committee to which he is so transferred.
(7) When an officer transferred by this section is, immediately oeiore the appointed day, employed by a committee whose func­ tions, powers, and duties are transferred by this Part of this Act.

25 and is at the same time employed by a committee whose fune tions, powers, and duties are not so transferred, the transfer of sueh officer by this section shall apply and have effect in relation only to his employment by such first-mentioned committee.
(8) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to 30 -every officer transferred by this section who, immediately before the appointed day, is employed by the local authority or com­ mittee from whose service he is so transferred on duties relating in part to functions, powers, or duties transferred by this Part of this Act and in part to other functions, powers, or duties, that is 35 to say:— (а) the transfer of such officer by this section shall extend and apply only to such of his duties (in this section referred to as transferred duties) as relate to functions, powers, and duties transferred by this Part 40 of this Act, and he shall as respects all his other duties ■continue to be an officer of the local authority or com­ mittee of which he was an officer on the day before the appointed day; (б) for the purposes of the provisions of this section relating 45 to the duties to be performed by him after such trails fer, his duties before such transfer shall be deemed to have been his transferred duties only; (c) his remuneration immediately before sueh transfer shall be apportioned as between his transferred duties and 50 his other duties and, for the purposes of the provisions of this section relating to his remuneration after such transfer and to the abolition of his office, his remunera­ tion before such transfer shall be deemed to have been so much only of such remuneration as is on sueh appor- 55 tiomnent appropriated to his transferred duties; .
(d) every question or dispute arising in the application of the provisions of this sub-section to the case of any particular officer shall be settled by agreement between such officer, the local authority or committee from gQ which he is transferred, and the vocational education committee to which he is transferred, and in default of such agreement shall be decided by the Minister and the Minister for Agriculture jointly, and the decision oi those Ministers shall be final.

65 34 PART VIII.
65 34 PART VIII.

Amalgamation of L'rban District Vocational Education Areas with County Vocational Education Areas.
(1) The council of a scheduled urban district may, before 5 the 1st day of September in any local financial year after the local financial year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1931, apply to the Minister for the amalgamation of the vocational education area consisting of such scheduled urban district with the county vocational education area which is included in the jq county containing such urban district.
(2) The Minister may at any time, either on the application under the foregoing sub-section of the council of the urban dis­ trict concerned and with the consent of the council of the county concerned or on his own motion without any such application or 25 consent, bv order (in this Act referred to as an amalgamation order) amalgamate an urban district vocational education area with the county vocational education area which is included in the county containing such urban district vocational education area.
Amalgamation of urban district and county vocational education areas.

20 (3) Every amalgamation order shall come into operation on and have effect as on and from the 1st day of April (in this Part of this Act referred to as the commencement of such order) next after the day on which such order is made.

(4) Every amalgamation order shall be published in the 25 iiis Oifigiuil as soon as may be after it is made.
99.—Whenever an amalgamation order is made by the Mini­ ster under this Part of this Act the urban district to which such order relates shall, on the commencement of such order, cease to be a scheduled urban district within the meaning of this Act.

and 30 thenceforth this Act shall have effect in sueh urban district and in the county containing such urban district as if sueh urban dis­ trict were not mentioned in the First Schedule to this Aet.
and for that purpose the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:— Effect of amalgamation order.
35 40 45 50 55 60 (a) on the commencement of such order the urban district vocational education area (in this section referred to as the urban area) which was eo-terminous with the said urban district shall become and be amalgamated with and added to the county vocational education area (in this section referred to as the county area) which was theretofore included in the county contain­ ing such urban district; (6) the vocational education committee for the urban area shall, on the commencement of such order, be dis- solved; (c) the council of the said urban district shall, before the commencement of such order, elect two persons or, where the county area contains at the time of such election four or more urban districts, one person to be members or a member of the vocational education committee for the county area: (d) a member of the vocational education committee for the county area elected under the foregoing paragraph shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes dis- qualified, hold office as such member until the commencement of the next following triennial meeting of such committee; (e) where before the commencement of such order the county area contains four urban districts, one of the two members of the vocational education committee for such area elected by the respective councils of such urban districts shall on the commencement of such order cease to be a member of such committee and each sueh council shall before the commencement of 35 such order determine which of the two members of such committee elected by it shall so cease to be a member of such committee and on the failure of any such council to make such determination such deter­ mination shall be made by the Minister as soon as may 5 be after the commencement of such order; (/) the vocational education committee for the county area shall, when preparing its annual scheme for the year commencing at the commencement of such order, con­ sult with the vocational education committee for the jo urban area.
Ancillary provisions in amalgamation orders.
100.—(1) Whenever the Minister makes an amalgamation order under this Part of this Act he shall by such order make such provision as he shall think proper, subject to the provisions of this section, for the following matters, that is to say :— 15 (a) the transfer of the property of the vocational education committee for the urban district vocational education area to which such order relates (in this section referred to as the urban committee) from that com­ mittee to the vocational education committee for the 20 county vocational education area to which the order relates (in this section referred to as the county com­ mittee) ; (b) the payment or discharge by the county committee of the debts and liabilities of the urban committee; 25 (c) the transfer from the service of the urban committee to the service of the county committee of such of the officers of the urban committee as the Minister shall think proper so to transfer, and the remuneration, conditions of service, and duties of such officers after 30 sueh transfer; (d) the removal from office of such of the officers ol the urban committee as are not transferred to the service of the county committee; (€) the continuation or completion by or against the county 35 committee of pending legal proceedings, contracts, agreements, and other matters and things in which the urban committee is concerned.
(2) The Minister may at any time by order amend so much of an amalgamation order as relates to matters provided tor 40 thereby in pursuance ot this section.

(3) An officer who is transferred by an amalgamation order fiom the service of the urban committee to the service of the county committee shall not.

in the service of the county com­ mittee.


receive less remuneration or be subject to less beneficial 45 Conditions of service !han\he remuneration to which he was entitled and the conditions of service to which he was subject in the service of the urban committee immediately before such transfer.
(4) For the purpose of the enactments relating to superan- 50 nuation and compensation for loss of office («) an officer transferred by an amalgamation order from the service of the urban committee to the service of the county committee shall be entitled to reckon his period of service with the urban committee as service with 55 the county committee; and (b) an officer who is removed from office by an amalgamation order shall be deemed to have been so removed after the commencement of such order by the county com­ mittee for a cause other than misconduct or in- 60 capacity.
36 Continuation education and technical education in the Gaeltacht.

PART IX.

General Powers of the Minister.
101.—(1) Where a vocational education area or part of a vocational education area is included in the Gaeltacht and the 5 Minister is of opinion that, having regard to the conditions in such area or such part, it is essential that special provision should be made in relation to continuation education or technical educa­ tion in such area or such part, he may make an order requiring the vocational education committee for such area to make such 10 special provision in relation to continuation education or tech­ nical education in such area or such part as may be specified in such order, and it shall be the duty of such committee to comply with the terms of such order.
(2) Where the Minister makes an order under the foregoing 15 sub-section in relation to a vocational education committee he may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make special grants to such com­ mittee.

(3) The Minister may at any time by order revoke or vary any 20 order made by him under the first sub-section or this sub-section of this section.
(4) In this section the word “ Gaeltacht ” means such portions of Saorstat Eireann as are for the time being recognised by law as forming the Gaeltacht.

25 102.—(1) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he so thinks fit, establish by order a consultative council for giving advice and assistance to him in relation to such matters (being matters relating to the carrying into execution of the provisions of this Act) as he shall specify in such order or in any subsequent Consultative councils.

30 order.
30 order.

(2) A consultative council established under this section shall consist of such persons having experience or special knowledge of the matters on which such council may give advice or assist­ ance to the Minister as the Minister shall from time to time nomi- 35 nate to be members thereof.
(3) Every member of a consultative council established under this section shall, unless he previously dies or resigns, retain his membership for two years only from the date of his nomination, but shall be eligible for re-nomination.

r .

40 (4) A consultative council established under this section shall meet whenever summoned by the Minister.
(5) Payments may be made by the Minister, out of moneys pro­ vided by the Oireachtas, to members of a consultative council established under this section or of a committee thereof, to such 45 extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, in respect of repayment of travelling expenses and payment of sub­ sistence allowance.
103.— (1) The Minister may at any time cause an inquiry (in this Act referred to as a local inquiry) to be held in relation 50 to the performance by a vocational education committee of its duties under this Act or in relation to the performance by an officer of a vocational education committee of his duties as such officer and for that purpose may appoint an officer of the Minister to hold such local inquiry.
55 (2) Where the Minister causes a local inquiry to be held he may, if he so thinks fit, make an order directing the costs in­ curred in relation to such inquiry to be paid by the vocational education committee concerned, and any such order shall certify the amount of such costs and the amount so certified shall be a 60 debt due by such committee to the Minister and shall be recover­ able by the Minister from such committee as a civil debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.
37 Local inquiries by the Minister.

Attendance of witnesses at local inquiries.

(3) Any moneys due by a vocational education committee to the Minister under this section shall be paid by such committee out of its vocational education fund.

(4) For the purposes of this section the costs of any local inquiry shall be deemed to include such reasonable expenses of 5 witnesses attending such inquiry as the Minister shall allow.

104.
104.

— (1) An officer appointed by the Minister to hold a local inquiry may by summons in the prescribed form signed by him require any person to attend at the time and place (not being a place more than thirty miles from the residence of such person) 10 named in such summons and there and then to give evidence or produce any document in his power, possession, or procurement relating to any matter in question at such inquiry or do both such things.
(2) A summons issued under this section shall be served by 15, delivering it to the person to whom it is addressed or by leaving it for him with a person of the age of sixteen years or more at the usual place of abode of sueh first mentioned person.
(3) If any person— (a) on being duly served with a summons under this section 20 makes default in attending in accordance with such summons; or (b) being in attendance at a local inquiry as a witness refuses to take an oath legally required by the officer holding such inquiry to be taken by him or to produce any 25 document in his possession, power or control legally required by such officer to be produced by him or to answer any question to which such officer may legally require an answer, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and 30 shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
(4) A witness before an officer holding a local inquiry shall be entitled to the same immunities and privileges as if he were a witness before the High Court.

35 Administration of oaths at local inquiries.

105.

—An officer appointed by the Minister to hold a local inquiry shall have power to take evidence on oath and for that purpose may administer oaths to persons attending before him as w itnesses.

Dissolution of vocational education committees.

106.
—(1) If and whenever— 40 (а) the Minister is satisfied after the holding of a local inquiry that the duties of a vocational education committee are not being duly and effectively discharged by such com­ mittee; or (б) a vocational education committee wilfully neglects to 45 comply with any lawful order, direction, ot regulation of the Minister; or (c) a vocational education committee fails to comply with any judgment, order, or decree of any court in Saorstat Eircann; or 50 (d) a vocational education committee refuses after due notice to allow its accounts to be audited by an auditor appointed for the purpose under this Act; the Minister may by order dissolve such committee and, as he may think fit, either order (under the power hereinafter con- 55 ferred on him) a new election of members of such committee or transfer the property and the several powers and duties of such committee to any liody or person or persons.
(2) Whenever the Minister makes an order under this section dissolving a vocational education committee, he may appoint such fiQ and so many persons as he shall think fit to perform the duties of such committee, and may from time to time remove all or any 38 such persons and appoint others in their place, and may fix the tenure of office, duties and remuneration of all such persons.
(3) The remuneration of all persons appointed under the fore­ going sub-section shall be paid out of the vocational education 5 fund of the dissolved committee.
(4) In either the first or the second election year after a vocational education committee has been dissolved under this section the Minister shall by order cause a new election of mem- hers ot such committee to be made, and upon the completion of 10 such new election all the properties, powers, and duties of the dissolved committee shall vest in the committee so elected, not­ withstanding that the same may have been transferred by the Minister under this section to any other body, persons or person.
(5) The Minister may from time to time by order do all such 15 things and make all sueh regulations as in his opinion shall be necessary for giving full effect to any order made by him under this section.

1 1?7*T7-rI?e *'I,ni*?ter may> in accordance with regulations made Grants to liy the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance out certain schools.
20 of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make grants in respect of continuation education or technical education to schools provid­ ing continuation education or technical education which are not schools established and maintained by a vocational education committee.

25 108.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister Grants by the for Finance, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, provide Minister- for or make grants for the training of teachers for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for 30 Finance, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make provi­ sion for scholarships.

109.

—(1) The Minister may by regulations made under this Minimum rates Act prescribe the minimum rates of salaries for the various of saIari«s for classes of teachers employed by vocational education committees.
teachers* 35 (2) A vocational education committee shall not pay to any teacher employed by it a salary at a rate lower than the rate prescribed by the said regulations in respect of the class of teachers to which such teacher belongs.

110.

—(1) The Minister may make regulations in relation to Training and 40 the training and certification of teachers for schools and courses ccrt^cati°n of provided by a vocational education committee under this Act.
teach*rs- (2) Where a student accepted by the Minister for training as a teacher enters, in pursuance of regulations made under this section, into an undertaking with the Minister that he will, in 45 consideration of any grant made by the Minister in respect of his maintenance and training, complete the course of training specified in the undertaking and will subsequently follow the profession of teacher in the manner and for the period specified in the undertaking and in the event of failure so to do will repay 50 to the Minister such proportion of the grant made by the Minister as is specified in the undertaking, the undertaking shall be bind­ ing on him notwithstanding that he was an infant at the time when the undertaking was given and any sums repayable in accordance with the undertaking shall be recoverable by the 55 Minister as a civil debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.
111.

—(1) An inspector shall be entitled at all reasonable inspection of times to enter and inspect any school in respect of which any schools, grant is made by the Minister under this Act.

(2) Every person who obstructs or impedes any inspector in •60 the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

39 Records to be kept by schools in receipt of grants.

112.
112.

—It shall be the duty of the principal teacher of every school in respect of which any grant is made by the Minister under this Act (not being a school maintained by a vocational education committee) to keep such registers and records as may be prescribed, and to permit such registers and records to be 5 inspected at all reasonable times by an inspector.

Facilities to teachers.

113.


—Whenever the Minister accepts for- further training any teacher employed by a vocational education committee such com­ mittee shall afford to such teacher, in such manner and on such terms as the Minister considers proper, such facilities as will 10 enable such teacher to avail himself of such further training.

PART X. Miscellaneous.

Service of notices.

114.


—Any notices or other document required by this Act or any regulations made thereunder to be served or sent mpy be served or sent by post.

Inspection and copies of registers of births and deaths.

1863 to 1880, shall at all reasonable times permit any 20 115.

—(1) Every superintendent registrar or registrar of births or deaths or other person having the custody of the register books kept in accordance with the Births and Deaths Registration Acts.
(Ireland), attendance officer under Part V of this Act or Part VI of this Act to inspect, without fee or other payment, the register books in the custody of such superintendent registrar, registrar or other person and to take such copies or notes of entries in such books as he shall deem necessary for the purpose of the execution of his 25 duties as such attendance officer.
(2) Whenever— (a) any person requires to ascertain or prove for any purpose arising under Part Y of this Act the age of a young person who resides in a district applies; or to which that Part 30 (b) any person requires to ascertain or prove for any purpose arising under Part VI of this Act the age of a person to whom that Part applies and who is employed in a district to which that Part applies; 35 such person shall be entitled to obtain from the enforcing autho­ rity for such district a requisition in the prescribed form for a certificate of the date of the birth of such young person or such person to whom Part VI.
of this Act applies (as the case may be) and shall, on presenting such requisition duly filled up and signed 40 together with a fee of sixpence at the office of the superintendent registrar or the appropriate registrar of births and deaths, be entitled to be supplied by such superintendent registrar or regis­ trar with a copy duly certified under the Births and Deaths Registration Acts (Ireland), 1863 to 1880, of the entry in the 45 register books kept under those Acts of the birth of such young person or persons.
(3) Every registrar of births and deaths shall, as and when so required by an enforcing authority under Part V of this Act, furnish to such authority a return in the prescribed form (if any) 50 of such of the particulars as shall be specified by such authority of the births and deaths of young persons registered by such registrar.
(4) Every registrar of births and deaths shall, as and when so required by an enforcing authority under Part VI of this Act, 55 furnish to such authority a return in the prescribed form (if any) of such of the particulars as shall be specified by such authority of the births and deaths of persons to whom Part VI of this Act applies registered by such registrar.

Offences in relation to certificates.


116.—-(1) Every person who forges or counterfeits any certi- 60 fieato or any signature to a certificate which if genuine would 40 be a certificate given or made under or for the purpose of Part V of this Act or Part VI of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction thereof to suffer imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.
5 (2) Every person who signs, gives, or makes any certificate purporting to be a certificate under or for the purpose of Part V of this Act or Part VI of this Act which is to his knowledge false or misleading in any material particular, or who makes use of any certificate purporting to be a certificate under or for 10 the purpose of Part V of this Act or Part VI of this Act which is to his knowledge forged or counterfeited or is lalse and mis­ leading in any material particular or any signature which is to his knowledge forged or counterfeited, shall be guilty of an offence under tnis section and shall be liable on summary con- 15 viction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or, at the dis­ cretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
117.
—Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (e) of sub-article (4) of Article 12 of the Schedule to the Local Govern- 20 ment (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, a person shall not, if otherwise qualified, be disqualified from being elected or chosen or being a member of any vocational education committee or of any sub-committee thereof or of any council, body, or com­ mittee which is a local authority within the meaning of the Aet 25 of 1925 by reason of his having by himself or his partner received or contracted to receive any benefit or advantage offered to the public in the nature of continuation education and technical education by a vocational education committee.
Exemption from certain disqualifications.

118.

—Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to interfere 30 with or affect any certified industrial school or certified reforma­ tory school.

119.

—All expenses incurred by a Minister head of a Depart­ ment of State in carrying this Act into execution shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be 35 paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

Saving for industrial or reformatory schools.

Expenses of this Act.

120.


—(1) The Minister may by order do all or any of the Regulations.
following things, that is to say:— 40 45 (а) make regulations prescribing any matter or thing referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed or any matter or thing referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed by regulations made under this Act; (б) make regulations in respect of the accounts of vocational education committees and the audit of such accounts; (c) make regulations respecting the procedure of vocational education committees in connection with the business imposed on or transferred to them by this Act.
(2) Regulations made by the Minister under this section shall, if and so far as they relate to the accounts or the auditing of 50 the accounts of vocational education committees, be made only after consultation with the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.
(3) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be 55 after it is made, and if either such House shall, within twenty- one days on which such House has sat after such regulation is laid before it, pass a resolution annulling such regulation, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

60 121.
60 121.

—The enactments mentioned in the Fifth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule as on and from the 1st day of April.

1931.

41 Repeals.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

The Scheduled Urban Districts.

Blackrock Urban District.

Drogheda Urban District.

Dun Laoghaire Urban District.

Galway Urban District.

Pembroke Urban District.

Rathmines and Rathgar Urban District.

Sligo Urban District.

Tralee Urban District.

Wexford Urban District.


SECOND SCHEDULE.

Rules for Payments of Travelling Expenses.

1.
In these rules— the word “ committee ” means a vocational education committee which is authorised or required by this Act to pay a contribution towards the expenses incurred by members attending the meet­ ings of such committee or a sub-committee thereof; the word “ sub-committee ” means a sub-committee of a com­ mittee ; the word “ contribution ” means a contribution payable under this Act to a member of a committee or of a sub-committee towards the expenses incurred by him in attending the meetings of such committee or sub-committee.
2.

Every member of a committee shall, at the commencement of his term of office as such member, communicate in writing to the chief executive officer of such committee the address at which he ordinarily resides, which address is referred to in these rules as the official residence of such member.

3.
3.

Every member of a sub-committee who is not a member of the committee by which he is appointed shall, on being appointed a member of such sub-committee, communicate in writing to the chief executive officer of such committee the address at which he ordinarily resides, which address is referred to in these rules as the official address of such member.

4.
4.

The contribution to be paid to a member of a committee or a sub-committee in respect of his attendance at any meeting shall be calculated on the length of the journey from the official residence of such member to the place of meeting of the committee or sub­ committee and the mode of transport used for such journey.

5.
5.

Where the journey from the official residence of a member to the place of meeting of the committee or sub-committee could be made by more than one route or by different modes of transport, the journey shall, for the purposes of these rules, be deemed to have been made by the route and the mode of transport in respect of which the payment under these rules would be the least.

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 6.
6.

There shall be paid to every member to wrhom a contribu­ tion is payable under this Act, a sum calculated in the manner prescribed in the next rule in respect of each meeting of the committee or sub-committee attended by him subject to the limitation that no contribution shall be paid to any such member in respect of a meeting held at a place situate less than five miles by any route from his official residence.

7.
7.

The sum payable under the preceding rule in respect of each meeting shall be calculated as follows, that is to say, four pence for each mile of the journey from the member’s official residence to the place of meeting travelled by railway, and five pence for each mile of such journey travelled otherwise than by railway.

42 50 55 THIRD SCHEDULE.

Liabilities m Respect of Annual Local Contributions.

In County Boroughs and Urban Districts.

Local Financial Year.

Number of Pence in the Pound.


Year commencing on 1st April, 1931 Year commencing on 1st April 1932 Year commencing on 1st April, 1933 Year commencing on 1st April, 1934 Year commencing on 1st April, 1935 Year commencing on 1st April, 1936 Year commencing on 1st April, 1937 Year commencing on 1st April, 1938 Year commencing on 1st April, 1939 Year commencing on 1st April, 1940 Year commencing on 1st April, 1941 Year commencing on 1st April, 1942, and every subsequent year.

99 99 99 99 3d.

in the pound.


3*d. 3£d.

4d.

44d.

4*d. 4*d. 5d.

5£d.

5M.

51d.

6d.

99 99 99 99 99 99 99 Part II.

In Counties.

f Local Financial Year.

Number of Pence in the Pound.

Year commencing on 1st April, 1931 Year commencing on 1st April, 1932 Year commencing on 1st April, 1933 Year commencing on 1st April, 1934 Year commencing on 1st April, 1935 Year commencing on 1st April, 1936 Year commencing on 1st April, 1937 Year commencing on 1st April, 1938 Year commencing on 1st April.
1939 Year commencing on 1st April, 1940 Year commencing on 1st April, 1941 Year commencing on 1st April, 1942 Year commencing on 1st April, 194° Year commencing on 1st April, 1941 Year commencing on 1st April, 1945 Year commencing on 1st April, 1946 Year commencing on 1st April, 1947 and every subsequent year.

\ 43 99 99 99 2d.

in the pound.

2*d. 21d.

2|d.

3d.

3Jd.

34d.

3|d.

4d.

4*d. 4.Id.

99 99 99 99 99 99 5d.

5£d.

5 Id.

5|d.

6d.

99 99 99 99 99 99 FOURTH SCHEDULE.


County Borougms and Urban Districts Referred to in Parts V and VI of this Act.

The County Borough of Cork.

The County Borough of Dublin.

The County Borough of Limerick.

The County Borough of Waterford.

Blackrock Urban District.

Dun Laoghaire Urban District.

Pembroke Urban District.

Rathmines and Rath gar Urban District.

FIFTH SCHEDULE.

Enactments Repealed.

Short Title.

Extent of Repeal; Session and chapter or num­ ber and year.

52 & 63 Vic.

c. 76.


54 & 55 Vic.

c. 4.

61 & 62 Vic.

c. 37.

Technical Instruction Act, 1.889.

Technical Instruction Act, 1891.

Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898.

62 & 63 Vic.

c. 50.

Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899.

2 Ed.

VII.

c. 20.

Public Libraries (Ireland) Act, 1902.

No.

9 of 1923.

No.

13 of 1924.

Local Government (Tem­ porary Provisions) Act, 1923.

Local Government (Tem­ porary Provisions) (Amend- ment) Act, 1924.

The whole Act.

The whole Act.


Section 7 and sub­ section (2) of sec­ tion 74.

The whole Act so far as relates to tech­ nical instruction.

Section 6.

Section 16.

Section 4.

Saorstat Eireann.

BILLE OIDEACHAIS GHAIRME BEATHA, 1930.

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* I)o horduioelh, ag Bail Kireann, do chld-hhtiala, 10adh Ahrdn, 1930.
BAILE ATHA CLIATH: FOILLSITHE AG OIFIG AN tSOLATHAIK.

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Clo-bnuailte ag Cahill and Co., Ltd.

Printed by Cahill & Co., Ltd. [Naoi hPingne Olan.]

Wt.

11— .‘188.

TOO.

4/:i0.

C.AOo.

(10286) f Nine pence Net.]

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