The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 83

An Act to make further Provision for the Education of the Title. People of New Zealand

An Act to make further Provision for the Education of the Title. People of New Zealand.

Whereas

it is expedient to make further and better provision

Preamble.

for the education of the people in the Colony of New Zealand :

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. The Short Title of this Act shall be "The Education Act,

Short Title.

1877."
2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of

Commencement of Act.

January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, except as to the appointment of the Minister, the Secretary to the Department of Education, the Inspectors of Schools, and other officers, and the making of regulations and orders, and the provisions of sections seventeen and eighteen, for which purposes only this Act shall come into force on the passing hereof.
3. Upon the coming into operation of this Act, the Acts

Repeal of Acts and Ordinances.

specified in the First Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby repealed.
4. In the interpretation of this Act, and except where there

Interpretation.

is something in the context repugnant thereto or inconsistent therewith, the following words and expressions shall mean or include the matters following:—

[ unclear: vision] of Act.

5. The provisions of this Act are divided into Parts relating to the following subject-matters:—
  • Part I.—Department of Education.
  • Part II.—Education Boards.
  • Part III.—School Districts. School Committees and their Duties.
  • Part IV.—Public Schools and Management thereof.