This Act may be cited as the Education Amendment Act, 1915 (No. 2), and shall form part of and be read together with the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Subsections one, two, and three of section thirteen of the principal Act are hereby repealed, and the following subsections substituted therefor:—

Section twenty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “first day of January,” and substituting the words “second Wednesday in August.”

For the purpose of providing for the first election of members of the Boards of the several education districts, the Governor may by Order in Council make such regulations as he deems necessary or expedient, and all such regulations shall have the force of law, anything to the contrary in the principal Act notwithstanding.

Subject to such regulations, the first election of members of the said Boards shall take place in all respects in the same manner as if the education districts had already come into existence.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act, the first division of the rural areas of the education districts into wards shall be made by the Minister by notice gazetted, either concurrently with or at any time after the gazetting of the notice setting forth the names and boundaries of those districts, and the Minister may exercise accordingly the powers conferred upon a Board by section fourteen of the principal Act; and such division of the rural areas shall, for the purposes of the first election of the Boards of such districts, take effect in anticipation of the coming into existence of those districts on the second Wednesday in August, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

The Governor in Council may make such regulations as he thinks necessary or expedient for avoiding any doubt or difficulty which may appear to him to arise in the administration of the principal Act by reason of any omission or inconsistency therein, and all such regulations shall have the force of law, anything to the contrary in the principal Act notwithstanding.

If vacancies occur in the governing body of any secondary school, University college, or other educational institution established under any statute of a nature or to an extent which in the opinion of the Governor renders it necessary to make special provision for the due performance of the functions of such governing body, the Governor in Council may appoint persons to fill such vacancies whether the persons whose seats have become vacant were elected or appointed.

Every such appointment shall be for such term as the Governor in Council in each case thinks fit.

The right of every person so appointed to hold office as a member of such governing body shall not be questioned in any Court, and the governing body shall be deemed to be duly constituted for all purposes with the inclusion of the members so appointed, any statute or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding.

The provisions of every statute providing for the constitution of such a governing body as aforesaid shall be read subject to the provisions of this section.