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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

Schedules

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Schedules.

First Schedule.

7th October, 1870. Order fixing the boundaries of the divisions of the metropolis, with the number of members to be elected by each division, and appointing the returning officer for the first election of the school board for London and his deputies.
27th October, 1870. Order regulating the first election of the school board for London.
27th October, 1870. General regulations for the first election of school boards in boroughs.
21st December, 1870. General regulations for the first election of school boards in parishes not situate within municipal boroughs, or within the metropolis.
21st December, 1870. General regulations as to passing resolutions for application for school boards in parishes not situate within municipal boroughs or within the metropolis.
6th January, 1871. Regulations for the first election of a school board for the district of the local board of Oxford.
15th March, 1873. General regulations as to the formation of united school districts.

Second Schedule.

Rules respecting Election of Members of a School Board.

1. The election of a school board shall be held at such time and in such manner and in accordance with such regulations as the Education Department may from time to time by order prescribe; and the Education Department may by order appoint or direct the appointment and make regulations as to the duties, remuneration, and expenses of any officers requisite for the purpose of such election, and do and make regulations respecting all other necessary things preliminary or incidental to such election, and revoke or alter any previous order, whether confirmed by or made in pursuance of this Act.

Provided as follows:
(a.)The candidates at every election shall be nominated in writing:
(b.)Any poll shall, so far as circumstances admit, be conducted in like manner in which the poll at a contested municipal election is directed by the Ballot Act, 1872, to be conducted; and, subject to any exceptions or modifications contained in any order of the Education Department

35 & 36 Vict. c. 33.

made in pursuance of this Act, the Ballot Act, 1872, shall apply in the case of the election of a school board in like page 21 manner as if the provisions thereof were herein enacted with the substitution of "school board election" for "municipal election:"
(c.)In a parish which is not situate in the city of London or in a borough, other than the borough of Oxford, the book containing the last rate made for such parish more than one month previously to any date shall be the register of the ratepayers entitled to vote in such parish at that date; and every ratepayer whose name appears in such rate book shall be entitled to vote unless he is disqualified for voting, and no person shall be entitled to vote whose name does not so appear.

2. Elections to fill casual vacancies in the metropolis and elsewhere shall be held only on the day in the year appointed or prescribed for the election of members, unless the Education Department order an election to be held on some other day, in pursuance of the rule numbered sixteen in the first part of the second schedule to the principal Act.

3. An order made in pursuance of this schedule shall, save as otherwise provided by such order, apply to all school boards.

Third Schedule.

The following regulations shall be construed as part of the conditions mentioned in rule one in the third schedule to the principal Act; that is to say,

(b.) Not less than one ordinary meeting shall be held in each month, but where the board ordinarily meet more than once in every month, they may, by resolution passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting on the question, resolve not to have an ordinary meeting in the months of August and September, or one of such months. One meeting shall be held as soon as possible after every triennial election of members:

(f.) The names of the members present, and in the case of a division the names of those voting upon each question shall be recorded:

(g.) No business involving the appointment or dismissal of a teacher, any new expense, or any payment (except the ordinary periodical payments), or any business which under this Act requires the consent of the Education Department, shall be transacted unless notice in writing of such business has been sent to every member four days at least before the meeting.

Fourth Schedule.

Act Repealed.

A description or citation of a portion of an Act is inclusive of the words, section, or other part first or last mentioned, or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning or as forming the end of the portion comprised in the description or citation.

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Session and Chapter. Short Title. Extent of Repeal.
34 & 35 Vict. c. 75. The Elementary Education Act, 1870. The subsection numbered ten in section thirty-seven; section fifty-seven; section fifty-nine; the subsection numbered nine in section sixty; sections eighty and eighty-nine; section ninety, from "knowingly personate" to "voting in any such election or;" the rules numbered one and three in the first part of the second schedule; so much of the rule numbered six in the third part of the second schedule as relates to fixing a day for a casual election, and the conditions in rule one of the third schedule marked (b.) (f.) and (g.).