PART V
GENERAL
Expenses of Secretary of State
72 Expenses of Secretary of State
In so far as any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in the exercise of his functions under the Education Acts are not met from the Education (Scotland) Fund or under subsection (2) of section one of the Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 20), the said expenses shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.
Educational Endowments
73 Register of educational endowments
(1) The Secretary of State shall appoint one of his officers to be Registrar of Educational Endowments, and it shall be the duty of the Registrar to keep a register of all educational endowments, which shall contain such information as may be prescribed, and shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times.
(2) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be the duty of the governing body of every educational endowment within twelve months after the appointed day or after the date upon which the deed creating the endowment came into operation, whichever is the later, to furnish the Registrar with such information about the endowment as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
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(3) This section shall not apply to a university endowment, to a theological endowment, or to the Carnegie Trust, and regulations made under this section may exempt any endowment or class of endowments from any of the provisions of this section.
(4) Expressions used in this section which are defined in the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Acts 1928 to 1935, shall have the like meaning as in those Acts.
74 Alteration of schemes under 45 & 46 Vict. c. 59
Any provision in a scheme under the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882, providing for the alteration of the scheme shall cease to have effect.
75 Date of endowment accounts
Notwithstanding anything in any scheme under the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882, or the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Acts 1928 to 1935, relating to the accounts of an educational endowment of which a county council or a town council is the governing body, the said accounts shall be made up and balanced to the same day in every year as the accounts of the county fund or the burgh fund as the case may be:
Provided that the accounts of any such endowment as aforesaid current on the day when the council's financial year ends first occurring after the appointed day may be made up and balanced to the first mentioned day or to a day one year thereafter as the council think fit.
76 Amendment of 18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 30
Sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-one and twenty-seven and paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section forty-one of the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1928, (which relate to objections to draft schemes, and the framing, consideration, confirmation and approval of schemes under that Act), shall have effect as if for any reference therein to two months there were substituted a reference to one month.
77 Sale of land belonging to educational endowments
(1) Where it appears to the Secretary of State to be desirable that a scheme under the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Acts 1928 to 1935, in relation to any educational endowment should make provision for the sale of any land forming the endowment or part thereof and for the application of the proceeds of sale in accordance with the provisions of the scheme, but that such provision cannot be made by reason of the third proviso to section two of the School Sites Act 1841, (which provides that if any land granted in accordance with the provisions of that section ceases to be used for the purposes mentioned in that Act, the land shall revert to the grantor), or by reason of any condition of a similar nature contained in the governing instrument of the endowment, he may by order direct that the said proviso or condition shall not have effect in relation to the land:
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Provided that no such direction shall be given in relation to any land unless the Secretary of State is satisfied either -
(a) that the person to whom the land would revert in accordance with the said proviso or condition cannot after due inquiry be found; or
(b) that, if that person can be found, he has consented to relinquish his rights in relation to the land under the said proviso or condition, and that, if he has consented so to do in consideration of the payment of a sum of money to him, adequate provision can be made for the payment to him of that sum out of the proceeds of the sale of the land.
(2) A scheme under the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Acts 1928 to 1935, relating to any educational endowment which includes land in respect of which an order has been made under the last foregoing subsection may make provision for the payment out of the proceeds of the sale of the land of any sum which is payable to any person in consideration of the relinquishment of his rights in relation to the land under the said proviso or condition.
(3) In this section the expression "educational endowment" has the meaning assigned to it by section forty-two of the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1928, provided that any land conveyed under section two of the School Sites Act 1841, or held under a governing instrument containing a condition of the nature referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to be an educational endowment or part thereof notwithstanding anything in the third proviso to that section or in the said condition.
Promotion of Educational Developments
78 Research
An education authority may with the approval of the Secretary of State make such provision for conducting or assisting the conduct of research as appears to the authority to be desirable for the purpose of improving the education provided for their area.
79 Educational conferences
Subject to any regulations made by the Secretary of State, an education authority may arrange or organise, or participate in the arrangement or organisation of, conferences or meetings for the discussion of questions relating to education, and may expend such sums as may be reasonable in paying or contributing towards any expenditure incurred in connection with conferences or meetings for the discussion of such questions, including the expenses of any person authorised by them to attend any such conference or meeting.
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Evidence
80 Provisions as to evidence
(1) Where in any proceedings under the Education Acts the prosecutor alleges that any person whose age is material to the proceedings is under, of, or over, any age, and satisfies the court that having used all reasonable diligence to obtain evidence as to the age of that person he has been unable to do so, then, unless the contrary is proved, the court may presume that person to be under, of, or over, the age alleged.
(2) In any legal proceedings any document purporting to be -
(a) a document issued by an education authority, and to be signed by the clerk of that authority or by the director of education of that authority or by any other officer of the authority authorised to sign it;
(b) an extract from the minutes of the proceedings of an education authority or of any committee or subcommittee thereof, and to be signed by the chairman of the authority or of the committee or sub-committee or by the officer having the custody of the minutes;
(c) a certificate giving particulars of the attendance of a pupil at a school or junior college, and to be signed by the head teacher of the school or college;
(d) a certificate issued by a medical officer of an education authority, and to be signed by such an officer;
(e) a certificate issued by an education authority that an attendance order has been made by the authority and a copy thereof served upon the parent of the child to whom the order relates, and to be signed by the clerk to the authority or by the director of education or by any other officer authorised to sign it; or
(f) a certificate in the prescribed form of exemption from attendance at a junior college, and to be authenticated in the prescribed manner;
shall be received in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be the document which it purports to be, and to have been signed by the person by whom it purports to have been signed, without proof of his identity, signature or official capacity, and any such extract or certificate as is mentioned in paragraph (b) (c) (d) (e) or (f) of this subsection shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be sufficient evidence of the matters therein stated.
Savings
81 Saving as to persons in the service of the Crown
No power or duty conferred or imposed by the Education Acts on the Secretary of State, on education authorities, on parents or on young persons shall be construed as relating to any child or young person who is employed by or under
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the Crown in any service or capacity with respect to which the Secretary of State certifies that, by reason of the arrangements made for the education of children and young persons employed therein, the exercise and performance of those powers and duties with respect to such children and young persons is unnecessary.
82 Saving as to lunatics, mental defectives etc
Subject to the provisions of the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, and to the scheme and rules made thereunder and to the provisions of section forty-two of this Act, no power or duty conferred or imposed by the Education Acts on the Secretary of State, on education authorities or on parents or young persons shall be construed as relating to any person who is the subject of an order or warrant for his detention or custody under the Lunacy (Scotland) Acts 1857 to 1919, or is being entertained and kept in an asylum m pursuance of section fifteen of the Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 51), or is a person for whose safe custody during His Majesty's pleasure His Majesty is authorised to give order or is a prisoner whom the Secretary of State has in pursuance of any Act directed to be removed to a criminal lunatic asylum or to the criminal lunatic department of Perth prison or to an asylum or is a person placed in an institution or a certified house or under guardianship under section four of the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 38), or is the subject of an order under sections seven, nine or ten of that Act, or has been reported under section forty-two of this Act as having been found incapable of receiving education at school, or to any person who is detained in pursuance of an order made by any court.
Miscellaneous
83 Effect of attendance notices on computation of working hours
(1) Where a young person is employed in any employment with respect to which a limitation upon the number of working hours during which he may be employed in that employment otherwise than by way of overtime in any week is imposed by or under any enactment, any period of attendance at a junior college required of him during that week by an attendance notice served on him shall, for the purposes of the limitation, be deemed to be time during which he has been so employed in that week.
(2) Where a young person employed in any employment is entitled by or under the provisions of any enactment or of any agreement to overtime rates of pay in respect of any time during which he is employed in that employment on any day or in any week in excess of any specified number of hours or before or after any specified hour, any period of attendance at a junior college required of him on that day or during that week by an attendance notice served on him shall, for the purposes of those provisions, be deemed to be a period during which he was employed in that
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employment otherwise than in excess of the specified number of hours or before or after the specified hour, as the case may be.
84 Adaptation of enactments relating to employment of children and young persons
(1) For the purpose of any enactment relating to the prohibition or regulation of the employment of children or young persons, any person who is not for the purposes of this Act over school age shall be deemed to be a child within the meaning of that enactment.
(2) For the purposes of any byelaws under Part III of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, the expression "child" shall have the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the said Part III.
85 Exemption from rates
No assessment or rate under any general or local Act for any county, burgh or other local purpose shall be assessed or levied upon or in respect of any land or building used exclusively or mainly for the purposes of the premises of a special school or orphanage in respect of which grants may be paid under paragraph (c) of section fifty-six of this Act; except to the extent of any profit derived by the managers from the letting thereof.
86 Amendment of enactments
(1) In relation to any young person punishable under this Act or under section seventy-eight of the Unemployment Insurance Act 1935, subsection (3) of section fifty-six and section fifty-eight of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, (which relate to the substitution of other punishments for imprisonment), shall have effect as if references therein to a young person included references to any person who has not attained the age of eighteen years.
(2) Any reference in an enactment passed before the appointed day to a school in receipt of a parliamentary grant shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to a school other than an independent schooL
(3) The amendments specified in the third column of the Fourth Schedule to this Act, being amendments of a minor or consequential nature, shall be made in the enactments specified in the first and second columns of that Schedule.
87 Interpretation
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them:-
"Act of 1872" means the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 62);
"Act of 1889" means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 50);
"Act of 1901" means the Education (Scotland) Act 1901 (1 Edw. 7. c. 9);
"Act of 1908" means the Education (Scotland) Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 9);
"Act of 1918" means the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 48);
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"Act of 1919" means the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 17);
"Act of 1925" means the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 55);
"Act of 1929" means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 25);
"Act of 1936" means the Education (Scotland) Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5. & 1 Edw. 8. c. 42);
"Act of 1939" means the Education (Emergency) (Scotland) Act 1939;
"Child" means a person who is not over school age;
"Clothing" includes boots and other footwear;
"Code" means a code included in regulations under section fifty-five of this Act;
"Education Acts" means the Education (Scotland) Acts 1872 to 1942, the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882, the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Acts 1928 to 1935, the Highland Schools Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 53), and this Act;
"Educational establishment" -
(i) means a school, a junior college and any other institution for the provision of any form of further education and the premises of such school, junior college or institution, and
(ii) without prejudice to the foregoing generality, includes a central institution, a training centre, a training college, a hostel used mainly by pupils attending such schools or junior colleges or institutions, and a residential institution conducted under a scheme under the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Acts 1928 to 1935, but
(iii) does not include a university, a theological college, a hostel or other residence used exclusively by students attending a university or a theological college, or a club or other centre conducted by a voluntary society or body for the purpose of providing facilities or organising activities of a character similar to those which may be provided by an education authority under section three of this Act, unless the society or body are in receipt of a grant from the Secretary of State or of a contribution from an education authority or apply in writing to the Secretary of State for the club or centre to be treated in all respects as an educational establishment;
"Employment" includes employment in any labour exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain whether the gain be to the child or to the young person or to any
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other person, and a person who assists in a trade or occupation carried on for profit shall be deemed to be employed notwithstanding that he receives no reward for his labour; and "employ" shall be construed accordingly;
"Employer" includes a parent who employs his children;
"Functions" includes powers and duties; and "functions relating to education", used in relation to an education authority, includes any function conferred or imposed on an education authority by the Education Acts or by any other enactment;
"Further education" has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (5) of section one of this Act;
"Independent school" means a school at which full-time education is provided for five or more pupils of school age (whether or not such education is also provided for pupils under or over that age), not being a public school or a school in respect of which grants are made by the Secretary of State to the managers of the school other than grants in aid of the managers' contributions under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939;
"Junior college" has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (5) of section one of this Act;
"Managers", in relation to an educational establishment, means the governing body, trustees, or other person or body of persons responsible for the management of the establishment;
"Medical examination" means examination by a duly qualified medical practitioner: Provided that in conducting an examination of any such class as may be prescribed, such practitioner may be assisted by other persons having such special qualifications or experience as may be prescribed;
"Medical inspection" and "medical supervision" mean, respectively, inspection and supervision by or under the directions of a duly qualified medical practitioner or in appropriate cases by a person registered under the Dentists Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 33);
"Medical officer" means, in relation to any education authority, a duly qualified medical practitioner employed or engaged, whether regularly or for the purposes of any particular case, by that authority;
"Medical treatment" includes prevention and treatment of diseases by any duly qualified medical practitioner or by any person registered under the Dentists Act,
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1878, and the supply of appliances on the recommendation of such practitioner or person, but does not, in relation to any pupil other than a pupil receiving primary or secondary education elsewhere than at school under arrangements made by an education authority under section eight of this Act, include treatment in that pupil's home;
"Mental Deficiency Acts" means the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Acts 1913 and 1940;
"National committee", "provincial committee" and "committee of management" mean respectively the National Committee for the Training of Teachers, a Provincial Committee and a Committee of Management established under the minute of the Scottish Education Department dated the tenth day of February, 1920, and include any committee or other body that may be appointed in their place under section forty-nine of this Act;
"Nursery school" and "nursery class" have the respective meanings assigned to them by subsection (2) of section one of this Act;
"Officers" includes servants;
"Parent" includes guardian and any person who is liable to maintain or has the actual custody of a child or young person;
"Premises" in relation to any educational establishment includes any building in which pupils attending such establishment are boarded whether managed by the managers of such establishment or by any other person by arrangement with such managers, and any playing fields used in connection with such establishment whether contiguous to or detached therefrom;
"Prescribed" means prescribed by the Secretary of State;
"Primary education" has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of section one of this Act;
"Proprietor" in relation to an independent school means the managers of such school, and for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to applications for the registration of independent schools includes any person or body of persons proposing to be the managers;
"Provisionally registered school" means an independent school registered in the register of independent schools whereof the registration is provisional only;
"Public school" means any school under the management of an education authority;
"Pupil" where used without qualification means a person of any age for whom education is or is required to be provided under the Education Acts;
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"Registered school" means an independent school the registration of which in the register of independent schools is final;
"School" means an institution providing primary or secondary education or both primary and secondary education being a public school, an independent school, or a school in respect of which grants are made by the Secretary of State to the managers of the school, and includes a nursery school and a special school; and the expression "school" where used without qualification includes any such school or all such schools as the context may require but does not include an approved school within the meaning of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937;
"School age" has, subject to the provisions of section twenty-four and of subsection (3) of this section, the meaning assigned to it by section twenty-three of this Act;
"Secondary education" has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (3) of section one of this Act;
"Special educational treatment" has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (4) of section one of this Act;
"Special school" includes special classes forming part of primary schools and secondary schools, child guidance clinics and occupational centres;
"Teachers superannuation scheme" means the superannuation scheme framed and approved under the Education (Scotland) Superannuation Acts 1919 to 1939, and any amendment thereof;
"Training centre" and "training college" mean a centre or college for the purposes of section forty-nine of this Act managed respectively by a provincial committee or a committee of management;
"Young person" means a person over school age who has not attained the age of eighteen.
(2) Where any function is delegated by one body to another in pursuance of this Act, that other body shall have power to exercise the function in like manner in all respects as the first mentioned body could have exercised it had there been no delegation, and, save as otherwise provided in the administrative scheme, to enter into any contract or execute any deed necessary for that purpose.
(3) Any person who before the date when section twenty-three of this Act comes into operation has attained an age at which under the Education (Scotland) Acts 1872 to 1942, his parent ceased to be under obligation to provide efficient education for him shall be deemed to be over school age, and any person who after the said date ceases to be of school age shall not in the event of any subsequent change in the upper limit of school age again become a person of school age.
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(4) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, references to any enactment or any provision of any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment or provision as amended by any subsequent enactment, including this Act.
(5) Any minute, rule, regulation, order or scheme, passed or made, or any certificate, direction or approval given, or thing done under any enactment repealed or amended by this Act, shall, if in force at the appointed day, continue in force notwithstanding such repeal or amendment in like manner as if it had been passed, made, given or done under this Act.
88 Repeal of obsolete enactments
The enactments set out in the Fifth Schedule to this Act, being enactments which, to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, have by lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary or obsolete, shall to that extent be repealed:
Provided that, without prejudice to the provisions of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63), nothing in this repeal shall affect -
(i) the validity of any scheme under the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882, in force at the appointed day; or
(ii) the title of an education authority to any property vested in or held in trust for them at the appointed day; or
(iii) the terms and conditions upon which any officer of an education authority holds his office or the powers of an education authority in relation thereto.
89 Citation, repeal and commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Education (Scotland) Act 1945, and the Education (Scotland) Acts 1872 to 1942, the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882, the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Acts 1928 to 1935, the Highland Schools Act 1873, and this Act shall be construed as one, and may be cited together as the Education (Scotland) Acts 1872 to 1945.
(2) The enactments set out in the Sixth Schedule to this Act shall be repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(3) Save as otherwise expressly provided this Act shall come into operation on the appointed day, and the appointed day shall be such day as the Secretary of State may appoint, and different days may be appointed for different purposes and different provisions of this Act: Provided always that the day appointed for the coming into operation of section twenty-three shall be not later than the first day of April nineteen hundred and forty-six and the day appointed for the coming into operation of sections twenty-nine to thirty-one and eighty-three shall be not later than three years after the date on which the upper limit of the school age is raised to fifteen.
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SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
Section 52
ARTICLES INCORPORATED IN THE TEACHERS SUPERANNUATION SCHEME
1 (1) Where, for the purpose of enabling a teacher to gain special experience of value in teaching, his service is discontinued for such period exceeding one year but not exceeding five years as the Secretary of State may approve, being a period beginning on or after the first day of January nineteen hundred and forty-two, the teacher may pay into the Education (Scotland) Fund with the consent of the Secretary of State in respect of such period sums equal to ten per centum of his salary as at the date of discontinuing service, so that the said period may be reckoned as a period of service within the meaning of this Scheme.
(2) The Secretary of State may determine the amount of such payments which shall be reckoned as contributions by the teacher.
2 (1) Notwithstanding anything in any enactment, a teacher employed in service within the meaning of this Scheme shall not be subject to an independent superannuation scheme in respect of that service.
(2) Where a teacher who becomes employed in service within the meaning of this Scheme at or after the appointed day -
(a) has, not more than one year before he so becomes employed in such service, been subject to an independent superannuation scheme, and
(b) would, but for the foregoing paragraph, be subject to such a scheme in respect of the service in which he so becomes employed,
the service in which he so becomes employed shall not be treated as service within the meaning of this Scheme, and he shall be subject to the independent superannuation scheme accordingly:
Provided that if any teacher who is subject to an independent superannuation scheme by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph elects within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner to withdraw from the scheme, the said provisions shall not have effect in relation to any service in which he is employed after the election takes effect.
(3) Where any teacher makes such an election, the election shall take effect as from the appointed day, or as from the time when he entered the service in which he is for the time being employed, whichever is the later.
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(4) Where any such election is made by a teacher who is a contributory employee or a local Act contributor as defined by the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act 1937 (1 Edw. 8. & 1 Geo. 6. c. 69), he shall be entitled to receive out of the appropriate superannuation fund a sum equal to the aggregate amount of his contributions to that fund calculated in accordance with subsection (5) of section ten of the said Act of 1937, or, as the case may be, in accordance with the corresponding provision of the local Act scheme, together with compound interest on those contributions, calculated to the date on which he ceases to be a contributory employee or a local Act contributor at the rate of three per cent. per annum with half yearly rests.
(5) In this article the expression "independent superannuation scheme" means:-
(a) any superannuation scheme other than this Scheme (including a superannuation scheme established by or under any public general or local Act of Parliament or provisional order confirmed by Parliament) which provides for the payment of contributions to a fund by any local authority or the persons responsible for the management of any educational establishment or other educational institution, and for the payment out of that fund, in respect of service rendered to the authority or to those persons, of benefits on disablement, retirement, attainment of any specified age, or death; and
(b) any system of superannuation (not being a system established by or under any public general or local Act of Parliament or provisional order confirmed by Parliament) operated jointly by a number of educational establishments or other educational institutions for the purpose of providing such benefits as aforesaid in respect of the service of persons employed by them.
3 (1) Subject to the provisions of this article, where a teacher who is employed in service within the meaning of this Scheme after the appointed day by an education authority has before the appointed day been in whole-time paid employment in connection with education in Scotland, such employment shall, if he makes application to the Secretary of State for that purpose within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner, be treated for the purposes of this Scheme as if it had been service within the meaning thereof:
Provided that if upon making such an application he requests that his employment before any date specified by him shall not be treated as if it had been service within the meaning of this Scheme, his said employment before that date shall not be so treated by virtue of this article.
(2) Where an application made by a teacher under this article relates, whether wholly or in part, to employment after the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, he shall be liable to pay the appropriate contributions to the Secretary of State in respect of that employment in accordance with rules made by the Secretary of State; and no employment after the said date shall be treated as service within the meaning of this Scheme by virtue of this article unless the appropriate contributions are so paid in respect thereof.
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(3) For the purposes of this article, the appropriate contributions are the contributions which would have been payable by the teacher in respect of the employment in question under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, if that service had been service within the meaning of this Scheme.
(4) Where a teacher has ceased to be in employment which is treated as service within the meaning of this Scheme by virtue of this article in order to undertake war service, the provisions of the Education (Scotland) (War Service Superannuation) Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 96), shall have effect accordingly with respect to his period of war service, including any such period which falls after the appointed day.
4 (1) Subject to the provisions of this article, where any period of employment after the fifteenth, day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, including any period of war service, is treated as service within the meaning of this Scheme by virtue of the last foregoing article, the contributions (hereinafter referred to as "employer's contributions") which would have been payable under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, by the teacher's employer in respect of that employment shall be paid to the Secretary of State by the education authority by whom the teacher in question is employed in service within the meaning of this Scheme when he first becomes entitled to make an application under the last foregoing article.
(2) Where a teacher who has been a contributory employee or a local Act contributor as defined by the Local Government (Scotland) Superannuation Act 1937, (hereinafter referred to as a Local Government Superannuation Act employee), becomes, not more than one year after ceasing to be a Local Government Superannuation Act employee, entitled to make an application under the last foregoing article, no employer's contributions shall be payable in respect of any employment which he was, immediately before he last ceased to be a Local Government Superannuation Act employee, entitled to reckon for superannuation purposes under the said Act of 1937 or under any local Act scheme as defined by that Act.
(3) In lieu of the employer's contributions which would have been payable in respect of any employment but for the last foregoing paragraph, there shall be paid to the Secretary of State in respect of that employment, out of the appropriate superannuation fund, a sum equivalent to the difference between the sum which has become or will become payable out of that fund in respect of the past contributions of the teacher who made the application (including any sum payable as interest upon such contributions) and the transfer value which would have been payable out of that fund under section twenty-four of the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act 1937, if, after he last ceased to be entitled to participate in the benefits of the fund the said teacher had forthwith become entitled to participate in the benefits of some other superannuation fund maintained under that Act or under a local Act scheme as defined by that Act:
Provided that the sum paid to the Secretary of State by virtue of this paragraph in respect of any employment shall not exceed the aggregate amount of the contributions which would have been payable under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, by the teacher's employer in respect of that employment.
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(4) For the purpose of the last foregoing paragraph -
(a) the appropriate superannuation fund is the fund in the benefits of which the teacher in question was last entitled to participate as a Local Government Superannuation Act employee before becoming entitled to make the application under the last foregoing article; and
(b) the expression "past contributions" includes in relation to a contributory employee all such contributions as are mentioned in subsection (5) of section ten of the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act 1937, and in relation to a local Act contributor shall be construed accordingly.
(5) Where a teacher ceased to be employed in any capacity in respect of which he was a Local Government Superannuation Act employee in order to undertake service which he was entitled to reckon for superannuation purposes by virtue of the Education (Scotland) (War Service Superannuation) Act 1939, paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) of this article shall have effect as if he had continued to be a Local Government Superannuation Act employee during the period of service which he was so entitled to reckon.
(6) Any reference in this article to the contributions which would have been payable under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, by the teacher's employer in respect of the employment of any teacher shall, in relation to a period of war service, be construed as a reference to such employer's contributions only as would have been payable in respect of his service during that period, if immediately before undertaking war service he had been employed by an education authority, governing body or other body of managers.
5 (1) Where by virtue of section one of the Education (Scotland) (War Service Superannuation) Act 1939, a teacher's period of war service is treated as if it were a period of service within the meaning of this Scheme, he may at any time during that period require the Secretary of State to repay to him a sum equal to the balance of his contributions computed as at the date of repayment.
(2) Where any teacher makes such a requirement, his period of war service after the requirement is made shall not be treated as if it were a period of service within the meaning of this Scheme by virtue of the said Act of 1939.
(3) Where the balance of any teacher's contributions is repaid under this article, the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of section four of the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act 1925, shall have effect as if a repayment had been made under the said paragraph (a).
(4) The balance of a teacher's contributions shall be calculated for the purposes of this article as it is calculated for the purposes of section four of the said Act of 1925.
6. A death gratuity shall not be payable to the legal personal representative of a teacher where the amount thereof would be less than the amount of the contributions made by the teacher in terms of the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, together
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with compound interest on each contribution as from the prescribed date calculated at the rate of three per centum per annum with, yearly rests, but under deduction of -
(a) any contributions returned to the teacher and not repaid by him, and
(b) any other sums paid or payable under this scheme to him or to his legal personal representative.
SECOND SCHEDULE
Section 58
LOCAL INQUIRIES
1. The Secretary of State shall appoint a commissioner to hold the inquiry and to report thereon to him.
2. The commissioner shall notify the bodies and persons appearing to him to be interested.
3. The commissioner may by notice in writing require any person -
(a) to attend at the time and place set forth in the notice to give evidence or to produce any books or documents in his custody or under his control which relate to any matter in question at the inquiry; or
(b) to furnish within such reasonable period as is specified in the notice such information relating to any matter in question at the inquiry as the commissioner may think fit and as the person so required is able to furnish:
Provided that
(i) no person shall be required in obedience to such a notice to attend at any place which is more than ten miles from the place where he resides unless the necessary expenses are paid or tendered to him; and
(ii) nothing in this paragraph shall empower the commissioner to require any person to produce any book or document or to answer any question which he would be entitled, on the ground of privilege or confidentiality, to refuse to produce or to answer if the inquiry were a proceeding in a court of law.
4. The commissioner may administer oaths and examine witnesses on oath and may accept, in lieu of evidence on oath by any person, a statement in writing by that person supported by a declaration of the truth thereof in such form as the commissioner may require.
5. The inquiry shall unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs be held in public.
6. Any person who refuses or wilfully neglects to attend in obedience to a notice issued under paragraph 3 of this Schedule, or who wilfully alters, suppresses, conceals, destroys or refuses to produce any book or document which he may be required to produce by any such notice, or who refuses or wilfully neglects to comply with any requirement of the commissioner under paragraph 3 of this Schedule, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months.
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7. The Secretary of State may make orders as to the expenses incurred by the parties appearing at the inquiry and as to the parties by whom such expenses shall be paid.
8. Any order by the Secretary of State under paragraph 7 of this Schedule requiring any party to pay expenses may be enforced in like manner as a recorded decree arbitral.
THIRD SCHEDULE
Section 68
CONSTITUTION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS TRIBUNALS
1. For the purpose of enabling Independent Schools Tribunals to be constituted as occasion may require, there shall be appointed by the Secretary of State a panel (hereinafter referred as the "educational panel") of persons to act when required as members of any such tribunal.
2. No officer of any government department and no person employed by an education authority in any capacity other than that of a teacher shall be qualified to be appointed to the educational panel, and no person shall be so qualified unless he has had such experience in teaching or in the conduct, management or administration of schools as the Secretary of State considers suitable.
3. Any person appointed to be a member of the educational panel shall hold office for such period and subject to such conditions as may be determined by the Secretary of State.
4. Where any complaint is required to be determined by an Independent Schools Tribunal the tribunal shall consist of the sheriff (or, if he is unable to act, a person qualified for appointment as sheriff nominated by the Lord President of the Court of Session), who shall be chairman, and two other members appointed from the educational panel by the Secretary of State, of whom at least one shall be a woman in the case of a complaint concerning a school for girls or a complaint concerning the proprietor of a school, or a teacher therein, who is a woman.
5. In this Schedule the expression "sheriff" does not include sheriff-substitute, and means the sheriff of the county in which the school to which the complaint relates is situated, or, in the case of an appeal against a refusal to remove a disqualification, the sheriff of the county where the appellant resides.
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FOURTH SCHEDULE
Section 86
MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
35 & 36 Vict. c. 62. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1872. | The following section shall be substituted for section forty-six:
"46 (1) Where property or money has been or shall be vested in any persons as trustees for behoof of a public school or other educational establishment under the management of an education authority, or for the promotion of any branch of education in such schools or educational establishments or to increase the income of any teachers therein, the free income of such property or money shall be accounted for and paid to the education authority, and shall be applied and administered by the education authority according to the trusts attaching thereto.
(2) It shall be lawful for the education authority, with the approval of the Secretary of State, to vary or depart from the said trusts, with a view to increasing the efficiency of the school or educational establishment by raising the standard of education therein or by other means."
in section forty-seven after the words "school or schools" in both places where they occur there shall be inserted the words "or other educational establishments"; in section fifty-one after the words "school board" there shall be inserted the words "and of the managers of schools and other educational establishments in respect of which, and of persons providing educational services to whom, grants are made by the Secretary of State", and the following proviso shall be added at the end of the section:-
"Provided that the abstract and report shall not relate to a school or other educational establishment in respect of which the only grant paid is a grant in aid of the managers
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
35 & 36 Vict. c. 62. cont. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1872.cont. | contributions under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, or to any other educational establishment which may be excepted by the Secretary of State.";
the following section shall be substituted for section fifty-five:-
"55. The function of appointing teachers for service in public schools and other educational establishments under the management of an education authority shall be in the education authority, and every appointment shall be during the pleasure of the authority.";
in section sixty-one after the words "public school" there shall be inserted the words "or other educational establishment under their management": and in section sixty-eight for the words "subject to inspection and in receipt of any public money as herein-before provided" there shall be substituted the words" in receipt of grants from the Secretary of State other than grants in aid of the managers' contributions under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939," and for the words "children" and "child" wherever they occur there shall respectively be substituted the words "pupils" and "pupil". |
8 Edw. 7. c. 63. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1908. | The following section shall be substituted for section three:-
"3 (1) It shall be lawful for an education authority to maintain an agency for collecting and distributing information as to employments open to pupils on leaving school.
(2) It shall be lawful for an education authority to pay such reasonable expenses incidental to the proper discharge of their duties as may be sanctioned by regulations made by the Secretary of State. Such expenses may include contributions to any association of education authorities concerned in the consideration of educational questions."; |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
8 Edw. 7. c. 63. cont. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1908. cont. | in section twelve, in paragraph (a) of subsection (2), there shall be inserted after the words "Act of Parliament" the words "or under the Endowed Institutions (Scotland) Act 1878", and for paragraph (c) of that subsection there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-
"(c) a committee or other body for the training of teachers constituted under section forty-nine of the Education (Scotland) Act 1945";
in section sixteen, in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) as amended by section sixteen and the Schedule to the Act of 1936, for the words from "the inspection" to "leaving certificate examination" there shall be substituted the words "conducting leaving certificate examinations", and for paragraph (d) of the said subsection there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-
"(d) To making payment to any committee or other body for the training of teachers constituted under section forty-nine of the Education (Scotland) Act 1945, in addition to any sums voted by Parliament for the training of teachers, of such sums as may be determined by regulations made by the Secretary of State;"
and the following proviso shall be added at the end of the subsection:-
"Provided that payments under paragraphs (c), (d) and (f), shall be made in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State.";
in section twenty-one there shall be added at the end the words "but such suspension shall not affect the teacher's rights to the salary or other emoluments attached to his office"; in section twenty-three for subsection (3) there shall be substituted the following subsection:-
"(3) Save as may be otherwise prescribed, it shall be a condition of the payment by the |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
8 Edw. 7. c. 63. cont. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1908. cont. | Secretary of State of a grant to the managers of a school or other educational establishment not under the management of an education authority or to other persons providing educational services approved by the Secretary of State that the accounts of the income and expenditure of such managers or persons in respect of such school, educational establishment or service shall be set out according to a form prescribed by the Secretary of State and shall together with the relative vouchers and other documents be submitted for examination and report to the accountant appointed in pursuance of section fifty of the Act of 1872.";
in section twenty-nine, in subsection (1), for the words "may after due notice and inquiry, and after hearing any party who desires to be heard," there shall be substituted the words "shall cause a local inquiry to be held, and may, after considering the report of the said inquiry," and the words from "Provided also" to the end of the subsection shall be omitted; and in section thirty-three the words "with the consent of the Department" shall be omitted. |
3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 38. | The Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1913. | In section two, in subsection (4), for the words "notified" and "under this section" there shall be substituted the words "reported" and "under section forty-two of the Education (Scotland) Act 1945," respectively, and for the word "this" where it first occurs there shall be substituted the word "that"; and in section three for sub-paragraph (v) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:-
"(v) who is a child with respect to whom a report has been issued under the enactments relating to education that he has been found incapable of receiving education at school, or that by reason of a disability of mind |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 38. cont. | The Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1913. cont. | he may require to be dealt with under the Mental Deficiency Acts after leaving school; or", and in the proviso to the said subsection for the word "notified" there shall be substituted the word "reported". |
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 48. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1918. | In section five for the words "children and young persons" there shall be substituted the word "pupils", and for the words "or continuation classes" there shall be substituted the words "junior colleges or other educational establishments"; in section seven for the words "to give instruction in religion to children" there shall be substituted the words "for religious observance to be practised and for instruction in religion to be given to pupils", for the words "the instruction so given" there shall be substituted the words "such observance or instruction", and after the words "their children should not" there shall be inserted the words "take part in such observance or"; in section nine, in subsection (1), after the word "school" in both places where it occurs there shall be inserted the words "or other educational establishment", and at the end of the said subsection there shall be added the words "and the Secretary of State may by order make such modifications in the provisions of any trust deed or other instrument relating to any school, or other educational establishment or central institution in receipt of contributions under this subsection as may be necessary to enable provision to be made for such representation as aforesaid, and any such trust deed or other instrument shall, so long as such contributions continue to be paid, have effect subject to any modifications so made.", in subsection (3) the words "of maintenance of the training colleges" shall be omitted, and the words "of the committees and other bodies for the training of teachers constituted under section forty-nine of the |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 48. cont. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1918. cont. | Education (Scotland) Act 1945," shall be inserted after the word "Scotland", and the following subsection shall be inserted at the end of the section:-
"(5) It shall be lawful for an education authority to make payments to the managers of schools other than public schools in order to secure the admission thereto and education therein free of charge of pupils nominated by the education authority,";
in section eleven, in subsection (3), for the words from "the First Schedule" to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words "Part III of the First Schedule and the Third Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1932, subject, however, to the following and any other necessary modifications -
(i) for references to a local inquiry there shall be substituted references to a local inquiry under section fifty-eight of the Education (Scotland) Act 1945;
(ii) for references to the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1932, there shall be substituted references to the Education Acts;
(iii) for references to the responsible authority there shall be substituted references to the education authority.";
in section twenty, at the beginning, there shall be inserted the figure (1), and the following subsections shall be added at the end of the section:-
"(2) Provision may be made in the said order for the appointment by the advisory council of special committees to deal with remits on particular subjects made to the council by the Secretary of State, for such special committees to be composed of persons nominated by the Secretary of State of whom some shall be members of the council and the remainder shall be persons hav- |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 48. cont. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1918. cont. | ing special knowledge or experience of the subjects of the respective remits, and for the reports of special committees to be submitted to the Secretary of State by the advisory council, who shall be entitled in submitting the reports to make such comments thereon as they think fit.
"(3) The Secretary of State may, after consultation with education authorities and other persons interested, by order establish a Regional Advisory Council for any branch of education, to advise the education authorities and other managers of schools, junior colleges and other educational establishments in the region as to the development of the branch of education for which the Council is appointed.";
in section twenty-one the following paragraph shall be inserted at the end of subsection (1):-
"Any other moneys applicable to a purpose to which the said fund may be applied may also, with the consent of the Treasury, be paid into the said fund for application to the said purpose.",
the following subsection shall be inserted after the said subsection:-
"(1A) It shall be competent to the Treasury to make such adjustments in the methods of calculating the sums payable under the last foregoing subsection as may be expedient in view of any changes which may be made in the votes from which any expenditure either in Scotland or in England and Wales may be made.",
and in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) for the words from "in aid of" to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words "in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State in aid of the expenditure of education authorities, of the managers of schools and other educational establishments, |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 48. cont. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1918. cont. | and of other persons providing educational services approved by the Secretary of State."; in section thirty-one, in paragraph (4), for the words "within the meaning of the Education (Scotland) Act 1872" there shall be substituted the words "issued in accordance with regulations made under the Education (Scotland) Acts 1872 to 1945"; and in the Fifth Schedule, in sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph 1, for the words "an approved scheme of the education authority" there shall be substituted the words "regulations made by the Secretary of State under section thirty-two of the Education (Scotland) Act 1945". |
18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 30. | The Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1928. | In section five, for the words "on or before the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty," there shall be substituted the words "at one time" and for the words "after the said day," there shall be substituted the words "at a later time"; in section six the words "any part of" shall be omitted, and for the words "the whole of it were an educational endowment" there shall be substituted the words "it were an educational endowment applied wholly to educational purposes"; in section twenty-eight for the words from "endowments belonging" to "1872 to 1925" there shall be substituted the words "an educational endowment", and the words "or the education authority within whose area the school is situated, as the, case may be," shall be omitted; in section forty-one, in paragraph (c) of subsection (1), the words "which in the opinion of the Court of Session is contrary to law" shall be omitted, and in paragraph (d) of the said subsection after the words "The provisions regarding" there shall be inserted the words "inquiries by the Commissioners and," and for the words from "if for an" to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 30. cont. | The Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1928. cont. | "a provision empowering the Secretary of State to cause a local inquiry to be held, and the provisions of the Second Schedule to the Education (Scotland) Act 1945, with the exception of paragraphs 7 and 8 thereof, shall apply to such inquiry"; and in section forty-two, at the end of the definition of "Provisional Order" there shall be added the words "or made under the Endowed Institutions (Scotland) Act 1878". |
19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 25. | The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929. | In section three, in subsection (2), for the word "fund" there shall be substituted the word "account"; in section twelve, in subsection (1), for the words from "subsection (1)" to the words "any other" there shall be substituted the words "subsections (8), (12), (13) and (14) of section fourteen of this Act shall, with any", in subsection (7), in sub-paragraph (c) of proviso (iii), for the words "or of centres of advanced technical instruction" there shall be substituted the words "junior colleges or other educational establishments"; in section fourteen, in subsection (4), for the words "school children" there shall be substituted the words "pupils attending schools, junior colleges and other educational establishments", and for subsection (5) the following subsection shall be substituted:-
"(5) Every administrative scheme relating to education made by the council of a county within which a large burgh is included for the purpose of education shall, unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs, include provision for the co-operation of the county council and the town council in the execution by the county council of the functions of the county council as education authority relating to the medical examination, inspection, supervision and treatment and to the cleansing of pupils attending schools, junior colleges and |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 25. cont. | The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929. cont. | other educational establishments in the large burgh. The county council before making any such scheme and the Secretary of State before approving any such scheme shall consult with the town council, and any such scheme, when so approved, shall be binding on the town council.";
in section seventeen, in subsection (3), for the words from "a local" to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words "any body of persons, whether members of the council or not, constituted by the council to advise or assist them in the execution of any of their functions under the Education (Scotland) Acts 1872 to 1945."; and in section thirty-one, in subsection (1), after the words "to discontinue" there shall be inserted the words "religious observance or". |
25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 5. | The Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1935. | In section two after the word "training" there shall be inserted the words "centres and". |
25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 8. | The Unemployment Insurance Act 1935. | In section seventy-eight for the word "Minister" wherever that word occurs there shall be substituted the words "Secretary of State", in subsection (2) for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-
"(b) in Scotland he shall be liable on conviction by a court of summary jurisdiction in the case of a first offence to a fine not exceeding one pound, in the case of a second offence to a fine not exceeding five pounds, and in the case of a third or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to both such fine and such imprisonment.",
and in subsection (4) for the words from "and, for the purpose" to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words "Regulations made by the Secretary of State under this section |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 8. cont. | The Unemployment Insurance Act 1935. cont. | shall make provision as to the functions to be performed by education authorities with respect to persons required under this section to attend at authorised courses, and, in particular, shall direct such authorities to make in any attendance notice served on any such person such modifications as may be provided by the regulations, and shall make provision as to the circumstances in which and the extent to which attendances in pursuance of requirements under this section may be reckoned as attendances in pursuance of the requirements of attendance notices:"; in section eighty-seven the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (4):-
"(5) This section shall not apply to proceedings in Scotland for offences under section seventy-eight of this Act.";
in section one hundred and four, in subsection (1), after the word "Act" where that word first occurs there shall be inserted the words "except under section seventy-eight thereof"; in section one hundred and thirteen, in subsection (1), for the definition of "Authorised course" there shall be substituted the following definition:-
"'Authorised course' means a course at a junior college established under the enactments relating to education or a training course provided under section seventy-seven of this, Act, and includes, in relation to insured contributors who have attained the age of eighteen years, any training course provided by the Assistance Board under the Unemployment Act 1934;"
and in the First Schedule, in paragraph 7 of Part II, for the words from "as a teacher," to "such a school," there shall be substituted the words "pending completion of training of a person provisionally recognised for temporary service as an uncertificated teacher in a school |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 8. cont. | The Unemployment Insurance Act 1935. cont. | or other educational establishment in Scotland under the management of an education authority or other managers to whom grants are paid by the Secretary of State other than grants in aid of the managers' contributions under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939." |
26 Geo. 5. & 1 Edw. 8. c. 32. | The National Health Insurance Act 1936. | In the First Schedule, for paragraph (f) of Part II, there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-
"(f) Employment in Scotland as a teacher to whom a scheme under the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Acts 1919 to 1939, applies, or employment pending completion of training of a person provisionally recognised for temporary service as an uncertificated teacher in a school or other educational establishment in Scotland under the management of an education authority or other managers to whom grants are paid by the Secretary of State other than grants in aid of the managers' contributions under the said Acts". |
26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 42. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1936. | In section four, in subsection (2), for the words from "Any such exemption" to "the ensuing term" there shall be substituted the words "No such exemption as aforesaid shall extend beyond the date for commencing school attendance next following the date upon which the exemption was granted"; and in section fourteen, in paragraph (a), for the words "day school as defined in section thirty-four of the Act of 1908" there shall be substituted the words "school other than an independent school", and for paragraph (b) the following paragraph shall be substituted:-
"(b) any committee or other body for the training of teachers constituted under section forty-nine of the Education (Scotland) Act 1945, and the certificated teachers employed by them in a school.". |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 37. | The Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937. | In section twenty-one, in subsection (1), after the word "years" there shall be inserted the words "or any young person who has not attained the age at which under the enactments relating to education children cease to be of school age," and for the words from "is totally exempted" to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words "or young person is not, by being so taken with him, prevented from receiving efficient education suitable to his age, ability and aptitude, be liable on conviction by a court of summary jurisdiction to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings", and, in subsection (2), after the word "child" in both places where that word occurs there shall be inserted the words "or young person"; in section twenty-eight, in subsection (1), for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-
"(a) until he has attained an age not less than two years below that at which under the enactments relating to education children cease to be of school age; or",
and in subsection (2), in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a), for the words "under the age of twelve years (notwithstanding anything in paragraph (a) of the last foregoing subsection)" there shall be substituted the words "before they attain the age at which employment ceases to be prohibited under paragraph (a) of the last foregoing subsection"; in section thirty-two, after subsection (3), there shall be inserted the following subsection:-
"(3A) A licence granted under this section shall specify the times, if any, during which the child to whom the licence relates may be absent from school for the purposes authorised by the licence, and for the purposes of the enactments relating to education a child who is so absent during any times so specified shall, notwithstanding anything in section three of the Education |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 37. cont. | The Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937. cont. | (Scotland) Act 1901, or in section four of the Education (Scotland) Act 1936, be deemed to have been granted exemption from the obligation to attend school during the specified times.";
in section thirty-eight, in subsection (2), for the year "1936" there shall be substituted the year "1945", and for the words "continuation classes" there shall be substituted the words "junior colleges"; in section fifty, for paragraph (ii) of subsection (1), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:-
"(ii) to hear proceedings regarding any child with respect to whom a direction has been given under section twenty-eight of the Education (Scotland) Act 1945;";
in section sixty-five, in paragraph (c) of subsection (1), after the word "child" there shall be inserted the words "or young person", and after the word "children" there shall be inserted the words "or young persons"; in section one hundred and one, in subsection (5), for the words "of section forty-five of the Education (Scotland) Act 1872, as amended by any subsequent enactment" there shall be substituted the words "of section sixteen of the Education (Scotland) Act 1945"; and in section one hundred and ten, in subsection (1) in the definition of "child", for the words "as provided in section thirty-seven" there shall be substituted the words "in Part III". |
1 Edw. 8. & 1 Geo. 6. c. 67. | The Factories Act 1937. | In section one hundred and fifty-six, in subsection (2) in the definition in paragraph (b) of "young person", for the words "attained the age of fourteen and" there shall be substituted the words "ceased to be a child but", and the words from "but does not include" to the end of the definition shall be omitted. |
2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 96. | The Education (Scotland) (War Service Superannuation) Act 1939. | In section seven the following definition shall be substituted for, and shall be deemed always to have been, the definition of the expression "period of war service":- |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 96. cont. | The Education (Scotland) (War Service Superannuation) Act 1939. cont. | "'Period of war service' in relation to any person includes -
(a) any period during which, though not actually engaged in war service, he is as a result of war service prevented or hindered from procuring work as a teacher; and (b) in the case of a person who, having been admitted or accepted for admission to preliminary training or to a training centre or training college, gives war service before completing his course of training, any period during which, though not actually engaged in war service, he is as a result of war service prevented or hindered from entering upon or completing his course of training;
Provided that a person's period of war service shall not, by virtue of this definition, be extended by a period or periods exceeding in all one year, or such longer period not exceeding two years as the Secretary of State may in any particular case allow". |
5 & 6 Geo. 6. c. 5. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1942. | In section one the following paragraphs shall be substituted for paragraphs (1), (2) and (3):-
"(1) When it is brought to the notice of an education authority that a pupil attending a public school in their area is unable by reason of the inadequacy or unsuitability of his clothing to take full advantage of the education provided, the education authority shall make such provision for the pupil for the purpose of ensuring that he is sufficiently and suitably clad as they may deem necessary during such period while the pupil is attending school (including days when the school does not meet) as they may determine.
(2) Where an education authority make provision for a pupil in pursuance of this section, they shall be entitled to recover from the parent of the pupil the expense thereby incurred or, if the authority are satisfied that the parent is unable without financial hardship to pay the |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Nature of Amendment. |
5 & 6 Geo. 6. c. 5. cont. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1942. cont. | whole of that expense, such part thereof, if any, as he is, in the opinion of the authority able without financial hardship to pay.";
and in section three the word "pupil" shall be substituted for the word "child" wherever that word occurs, and in paragraph (b) for the words "under any enactment to make special provision" there shall be substituted the words "to provide special educational, treatment". |
FIFTH SCHEDULE
Section 88
OBSOLETE ENACTMENTS
Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
4 & 5 Vict. c. 38. | The School Sites Act 1841. | The whole Act. |
7 & 8 Vict. c. 37. | The School Sites Act 1844. | The whole Act. |
12 & 13 Vict. c. 49. | The School Sites Act 1849. | The whole Act. |
14 & 15 Vict. c. 24. | The School Sites Act 1851. | The whole Act. |
15 & 16 Vict. c. 49. | The School Sites Act 1852. | The whole Act. |
35 & 36 Vict. c. 62. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1872. | In section one, the definitions of "parish", "burgh", "parish school", "burgh school", "subject to inspection" and "teacher"; sections twenty-three to twenty-five, thirty-one to thirty-five, and thirty-eight; in section forty-eight the words from "and the account" to "funds; and"; sections fifty-six to fifty-nine; in section sixty-one the words "out of the school fund"; sections sixty-seven, seventy and seventy-one; in section seventy-five the words from "and such report" to the end of the section; sections seventy-six and seventy-nine. |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
36 & 37 Vict. c. 53. | The Highland Schools Act 1873. | In section two the words "for the purposes of the school fund". |
45 & 46 Vict. c. 59. | The Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882. | The whole Act except section two, section nineteen (so far as relating to the cost of audit) and sections forty-five and forty-six. |
48 & 49 Vict, c. 61. | The Secretary for Scotland Act 1885. | In Part I of the Schedule, the reference to the enactments relating to School Sites. |
50 & 51 Vict. c. 64. | The Technical Schools (Scotland Act 1887. | The whole Act. |
52 & 53 Vict. c. 50. | The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889. | Section eighty-five. |
60 & 61 Vict. c.62. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1897. | The whole Act so far as unrepealed. |
1 Edw. 7. c. 9. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1901. | In section three, the words from "and if the said school board" to the end of the section. |
8 Edw. 7. c. 63. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1908. | In section seven, subsection (4); sections thirteen, twenty-two and twenty-six; in section twenty-nine, in subsection (1), the words "from the school fund"; section thirty-two. |
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 48. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1918. | In section five, the words from "and all expenses" to "county education fund"; in section thirteen, subsection (1); sections twenty-five and twenty-eight; in section thirty-one, paragraph (2); in the Fourth Schedule, paragraphs 3, and 8 to 11; and in the Fifth Schedule, sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 1, sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph 5 and paragraph 6. |
20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 36. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1930. | The whole Act. |
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
18 & 19 Vict. c. 131. | The School Grants Act 1855. | The whole Act. |
35 & 36 Vict. c. 62. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1872. | In section one the definition of "parliamentary grant," "parent" and "public school"; sections five, twenty-six to thirty, thirty-six, thirty-seven, forty, forty-five, fifty-four and sixty-six; and in section sixty-eight the words from "for elementary" to "meeting, and". |
41 & 42 Vict. c. 78. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1878. | The whole Act so far as unrepealed. |
45 & 46 Vict. c. 59. | The Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882. | In section forty-five, the words "and any school sharing in such endowment shall be periodically inspected" and the words "and, except in the case of public or state-aided schools, the cost of such inspection". |
46 & 47 Vict. c. 56. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1883. | The whole Act so far as unrepealed. |
53 & 54 Vict. c. 43. | The Education of Blind and Deaf Children (Scotland) Act 1890. | The whole Act so far as unrepealed. |
56 & 57 Vict. c. 12. | The Day Industrial Schools (Scotland) Act 1893. | The whole Act so far as unrepealed. |
6 Edw. 7. c. 10. | The Education of Defective Children (Scotland) Act 1906. | The whole Act so far as unrepealed. |
8 Edw. 7. c. 63. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1908. | Sections four and five; in section seven, subsections (1) to (3); sections eight to eleven; in section sixteen, in paragraph (f) of subsection (1), the words from "and set forth" to the end of the paragraph; section twenty; in section twenty-four, subsection (1); in section thirty-four, the definitions of "secondary education", "day school", "continuation class", "provincial committee", "training centre", "parent" and "guardian"; and the First Schedule.
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
8 Edw. 7. c. 67. | The Children Act 1908. | The whole Act so far as unrepealed. |
3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 12. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1913. | The whole Act. |
3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 38. | The Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1913. | In section two, in subsection (1), the words "education or for the" and the words from "as the case may require" to the end of the subsection, and subsections (2) and (3); in section three, subsection (2); in section twenty-six, in the first proviso, the words from "of school boards" to "or the powers ". |
8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 48. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1918. | Sections four, six, eight and ten; in section eleven, subsection (1); sections fourteen and fifteen; in section seventeen, as amended by section sixteen of, and the Schedule to, the Act of 1936, the words "other than a child or young person in respect of whom an employment certificate granted under the Education (Scotland) Act 1936, is in force"; in section eighteen, in subsection (10) the words from "as it applies" to the end of the subsection; section twenty-seven; in section thirty-one, paragraph (3); in the Second Schedule, sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 12; in the Fourth Schedule, paragraph 4; in the Fifth Schedule, paragraph 3, and in paragraph 5, sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (f). |
10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 65. | The Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act 1920. | In section four the definition of the expression "child". |
15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 55. | The Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act 1925. | In section seven, in subsection (1), the words "and at the expiration of every subsequent period of seven years". |
15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 89. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1925. | Sections four and five. |
18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 28. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1928. | The whole Act. |
18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 30. | The Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1928. | In section fifteen, subsection (1); sections thirty-one to thirty-three, thirty-five and thirty-seven; and in section forty-two the definition of the expression "grant-aided school".
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 25. | The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929. | In section twelve, in subsection (3), in paragraph (a), the word "(a) education", the words from "and all matters" to "the education committee", and the words "or town" and "as the case may be", and paragraph (b), and in subsection (7), in paragraph (iii) of the proviso, sub-paragraph (b). |
22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 47. | The Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1932. | Section nine. |
25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 8. | The Unemployment Insurance Act 1935. | Section seventy-six; in section seventy-nine, in subsection (1), the words "and contribute towards the cost of any other authorised courses"; in section eighty, in subsection (1), the words "persons who have not attained the age of eighteen years and of" and the words "who have attained that age", and in subsection (2), paragraph (a); in section eighty-three, in subsection (2), the words from "and shall include" to the end of the subsection; in section one hundred and four, in subsection (2), the words "section seventy-eight or"; and section one hundred and twelve. |
26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 42. | The Education (Scotland) Act 1936. | Sections one to three; in section four, in subsection (1) as amended by paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section one of the Act of 1939, the words "after the day preceding the appointed day"; sections six to nine; in section eleven, the words from "and the insertion" to the end of the section; sections twelve and thirteen; in section seventeen, the definitions of "Act of 1890", "Act of 1906", "Deaf" and "Local Committee for Juvenile Employment", and subsection (2); and the Schedule, so far as relating to the amendment of the Education (Scotland) Act 1872, of the Education (Scotland) Act 1878, of the Education of Blind
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Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 42. cont. | The Education (Scotland) Act,1936. cont. | and Deaf-Mute Children (Scotland) Act 1890, of sections three, sixteen, twenty, twenty-six and thirty-four of the Education (Scotland) Act 1908, and of sections four, six, ten, fourteen, fifteen and seventeen of the Education (Scotland) Act 1918. |
1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 37. | The Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937. | In section thirty-seven, paragraph (a); and in section thirty-eight, subsections (5) and (6). |
1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 46. | The Physical Training and Recreation Act 1937. | Sections one and two; in section three, in subsection (1), the words from "recommendations" to "with", and the words "after considering a recommendation of the grants committee", and in subsection (3) as applied to Scotland by section ten, the words "after consultation with the National Council for Scotland" and the words "on the recommendation of the grants committee and"; in section eight, subsection (2); and in section ten, in subsection (2), the words from "for any reference", where they occur for the second time, to "Act in Scotland", subsection (3), in subsection (4), the proviso, and subsection (10). |
1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 69. | The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act 1937. | In the First Schedule, paragraph 3 of Part II. |
1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. 8. | The Unemployment Insurance Act 1938. | Sections one and six. |
2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 112. | The Education (Emergency) (Scotland) Act 1939. | In section one, subsection (1); in section two, subsection (3); and the Schedule.
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