This Act may be cited as the Education Amendment Act, 1936, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section two of the principal Act (as amended by section thirty-three of the Finance Act, 1932) is hereby amended by omitting from the definition of the term “school age” the word “six” and restoring the word “five”.

No child who has not attained school age shall be enrolled in any public school or Native school, and no child over school age shall, without the special leave of the Committee, be allowed to attend any public school other than a district high school or an intermediate school or the intermediate department of any school.

Subsection three of section thirty-three of the Finance Act, 1932, and section eight of the Education Amendment Act, 1932–33, are hereby consequentially repealed.

This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-six.

The Order in Council dated the twenty-seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and published in the Gazette of the second day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, at page six hundred and seventy-six (purporting to be made under the authority of the principal Act and relating to the computation of average attendances at schools during the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five), is hereby declared to be, and at all times since the making thereof to have been, valid.

The Order in Council dated the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and published in the Gazette of the second day of the same month, at page six hundred and seventy-five (purporting to be made under the authority of the principal Act and relating to training colleges), is hereby declared to be, and at all times since the making thereof to have been, valid, and to have come into force, in accordance with the provisions thereof, on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-six.

The Minister may from time to time by writing under his hand authorize any Board to pay to its Chairman such sum by way of remuneration for his services as the Minister may approve, not exceeding in any year the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds. The total amount authorized to be paid under this section in any year by all Boards shall not exceed seven hundred and eighty pounds.

Any authority given under this section may be at any time in like manner varied or revoked, and until so varied or revoked shall continue in force from year to year according to its tenor.

Payments under this section may be made by monthly or other instalments as the Minister may approve.

This section is in substitution for section thirty-six of the Finance Act, 1925, and that section is hereby accordingly repealed.

The Board may in any year expend for the maintenance and improvement of school-grounds such proportion, as the Minister may approve, of the moneys available for expenditure during that year out of the special fund kept by the Board pursuant to subsection six of section thirty-three of the principal Act for, inter alia, the maintenance and repair of schools and of teachers’ residences.

Any payments heretofore made by any Board out of the special fund hereinbefore referred to, in excess of the limit fixed by section four of the Education Law Amendment Act, 1934–35, are hereby validated, and the said section four is hereby repealed.

Any special class established in accordance with the first proviso to subsection two of section fifty-six of the principal Act may, if the Minister so directs or approves, be conducted in the home of any child or children in attendance at such class.

Section two of the Education Amendment Act, 1932–33, is hereby amended by repealing subsections five and six thereof, and substituting the following subsections:—

The examination heretofore known as “the proficiency examination” shall not be held at any time after the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the certificates heretofore known as “certificates of proficiency” or as “certificates of competency” shall not be issued after the said date.

On the first day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, the principal Act shall be deemed to be consequentially amended as follows:—

For the purposes of section thirty-four of the Education Amendment Act, 1920, the term “teachers” includes and at all times heretofore has included student-teachers and part-time teachers.

Any regulations that may hereafter be made prescribing the salaries and allowances payable to student-teachers may, in so far as they prescribe salaries and allowances for the current year, be made retrospective to the first day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-six.