The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Parliamentary Grant
Parliamentary Grant.
Contribution for fees of children who obtain certificates.
Amendment of 33 & 31 Vict. c. 75, s. 97, as to conditions of annual parliamentary grant.
After the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven the conditions required to be fulfilled by an
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elementary school in order to obtain the annual parliamentary grant shall provide that—
(1.) | Such grant shall not in any year be reduced by reason of its excess above the income of the school if the grant do not exceed the amount of seventeen shillings and sixpence per child in average attendance at the school during that year, but shall not exceed that amount per child, except by the same sum by which the income of the school, derived from voluntary contributions, rates, school fees, endowments, and any source whatever other than the parliamentary grant exceeds the said amount per child; and— |
(2.) | Where the population of the school district in which the school is situate, or the population within two miles, measured according to the nearest road, from the school is less than three hundred, and there is no other public elementary school recognised by the Education Department as available for the children of that district, or that population (as the case may be), a special parliamentary grant may be made annually to that school to the amount, if the said population exceeds two hundred, of ten pounds, and, if it does not exceed two hundred, of fifteen pounds; and— |
(3.) | The said special grant shall be in addition to the ordinary annual parliamentary grant, and shall not be included in the calculation of that grant for the purpose of determining whether it does or not exceed the amount before in this section mentioned. |
20. The conditions required to be fulfilled by schools in
order to obtain annual parliamentary grants shall provide that the income of the schools shall be applied only for the purpose of public elementary schools.
Conditions for obtaining parliamentary grant.