This Act may be cited as the Education Amendment Act 1964, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Education Act 1914 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Appointments Committees

Section 3 of the Education Amendment Act 1955 is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (c) of subsection (1), and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c)

Such other Appointments Committees as the Minister may approve for all other positions to which teachers may be appointed by the Director under powers for the time being delegated to him by the State Services Commission.”

3 Appointments of teachers

(1)

Section 9 of the Education Amendment Act 1955 is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (2) the words “(as defined by regulations)”.

(2)

Section 9 of the Education Amendment Act 1955 is hereby further amended by adding to subsection (4a), as inserted by subsection (2) of section 4 of the Education Amendment Act 1962, the following proviso:

“Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall apply to persons who are not husband and wife at the time of application for the positions as if they were husband and wife where the Appointments Committee is satisfied that they will be husband and wife at the time of taking up the appointments; but in any case where any such persons have been recommended for appointment by the Appointments Committee and have been appointed to the positions by the appointing authority, the appointments shall lapse if, at the time of taking up the appointments, they are not husband and wife.”

4 Right of appeal

Section 4 of the Education Amendment Act 1948, as amended by section 12 of the Education Amendment Act 1955, is hereby further amended by omitting from the proviso to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) the words “prescribed by regulations”, and also the words “so prescribed”.

5 Restriction upon time of application for appointment of teachers

Section 12 of the Statutes Amendment Act 1941 (as amended by section 14 of the Education Amendment Act 1948 and section 12 of the Education Amendment Act 1963) is hereby further amended—

(a)

By inserting in subsection (2), after the words “permanently appointed”, the words “and no such teacher shall be eligible to apply for a new permanent position at any time within the period before the commencement of the school term immediately before that in which he is eligible to be appointed to the position”:

(b)

By omitting from subsection (3) the words “aforesaid period of two years”, and substituting the words “period specified in subsection (2) of this section apply for or”.

6 Payment of overgrade salaries

(1)

Section 3 of the Education Amendment Act 1962 is hereby amended by inserting in paragraph (c) of subsection (2), after the words “the same salary and allowances”, the words “but such period of two years may be extended by the Director in any case where he is satisfied that it has not been possible for the teacher to obtain in a public school, secondary school, technical school, combined school, technical institute, or any school under the control of the Department, any position the salary and allowances attached to which are not less than the salary and allowances then being received by him”.

(2)

This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the fifth day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-two.

7 Protection of teachers in certain cases

(1)

In any case where a public school is established in connection with a teachers training college as a normal school, every teacher on the staff of that public school shall, while employed in any other public school, continue to receive the same salary as he received in the former school if that salary is higher than the salary for his new position, but in no case after the expiration of two years from the date on which he ceased duty in his former position.

(2)

Section 2 of the Education Amendment Act 1954 is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “district high school” where they first appear, the words “or of one or more schools (being secondary or technical schools), or in any case where one secondary school or technical school takes over the functions of any other secondary school or technical school or secondary department of a district high school which is consequentially disestablished”.

8 Governing bodies of combined schools

Subsection (1) of section 3 of the Education Amendment Act 1924 is hereby amended—

(a)

By omitting the words “of whom not more than three shall be appointed by the Governor-General”:

(b)

By omitting the word “two”, and substituting the word “one”.

9 Grants to registered private schools

(1)

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations providing for the making of grants, out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, to the governing bodies of registered private schools.

(2)

Without limiting the general power conferred by subsection (1) of this section, regulations may be made under this section for all or any of the following purposes:

(a)

Providing for the manner in which grants under this section are to be calculated:

(b)

Prescribing conditions governing the making of grants under this section:

(c)

Specifying the purposes for which grants made under this section may be spent:

(d)

Providing for the keeping of appropriate accounts and the inspection of those accounts by officers of the Department:

(e)

Providing for the disposal of equipment provided wholly or partly from money appropriated by Parliament in the event of the closure of the school or of the equipment being no longer required for school or teaching purposes.

(3)

Regulations made under this section may be so made as to apply to all registered private schools or to any registered private school or to any class or classes of those schools.

This Act is administered in the Department of Education.

Education Amendment Act 1964