To amend the Education Affairs Act (House of Assembly), 1988, so as to define or further define certain expressions; to further regulate the transfer of immovable property to state-aided schools; to alter the financial year of state-aided schools; to regulate the closure ofstate-aided schools; to effect certain textual alterations; and to further regulate the determination of certain establishments; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Amendment of section 1 of Act 70 of 1988, as amended by section 1 of Act 88 of 1991 and section 1 of Act 39 of 1992 1.
" 'subsidized post' means a post for which a subsidy in terms of section 32 must be utilized by virtue of the conditions imposed in terms of the said section;".
Amendment of section 31A of Act 70 of 1988, as inserted by section 7 of Act 88 of 1991 and amended by section 4 of Act 39 of 1992 2.
"Provided that except in the case of immovable property sold or otherwise alienated with the approval of the Minister in terms of section 30(2) the ownership of such property shall without payment of compensation by the State revert to the State if the immovable property so vested.
"(3) The officer in charge of a deeds office or other office where the immovable property referred to in subsection (2) is registered, shall, on submission to him of the title deed concerned, make such endorsements on that title deed and such entries in his registers, as may be required to effect register the transfer concerned.".
Amendment of section 36 of Act 70 of 1988 3.
"(1) The financial year of a state-aided school shall terminate on the last day of March December in each year.".
Insertion of section 37A in Act 70 of 1988 4.
37A. (1) If the Minister considers it necessary, he may, after consultation with the governing body of a state-aided school, by notice in the Gazette declare that the state-aided school concerned shall be closed from a date mentioned in such notice.
As from the date on which a state-aided school is declared to be closed all assets and liabilities of such school shall, subject to the conditions of a donation, bequest or trust contemplated in section 30(3), devolve upon the State.
The Minister shall appoint a person to administer the affairs of the state-aided school concerned.
Immovable property devolving upon the State by virtue of subsection (2) shall be transferred to the State without payment of transfer duty, stamp duty or other moneys or costs.
The officer in charge of a deeds registry or other office where the immovable property referred to in subsection (4) is registered, shall, on submission to him of the title deed concerned, make the necessary endorsements on that title deed and necessary entries in his registers.
Amendment of section 50 of Act 70 of 1988 5.
"(c) a child shall not attend a primary school before the beginning of the year in which he reaches the age of six years, if he reaches the said age before the first day of July of such year, and if a child reaches the age of six years on or after the said date in any year, he may only attend such a school after the end of the year in which he so reached the said age;".
Amendment of section 97 of Act 70 of 1988, as amended by section 17 of Act 88 of 1991 6.
the power to appoint, promote or discharge any person at a state-aided school shall vest in the governing body, which shall exercise such power with regard to subsidized posts subject to the prior approval of the Minister.
subparagraph (i) of this paragraph.
This Act shall be called the Education Affairs Amendment Act (House of Assembly), 1993.
The provisions of section 2 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 19 June 1991.