Object of grant.
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2. The object of the Grant is to aid in maintaining :--
(a.) English Schools.
(b.) Vernacular Schools.
CHAPTER I.
"English School,"
"Vernacular School."
"Grant School."
Inspector."
"Managers."
"Attend-
ance.
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"Half at- tendances."
"Average attendance."
"Annual grant list. "
"School year"
and payment
of grants.
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INTRODUCTORY.
3. The term English School" means a school in which the study of the English Language is a compulsory subject, or in which the English Language is the medium of instruction.
4. The term " Vernacular School" means a school in which the Chinese Language is the sole medium of instruction during the hours of Attendance.
5. The term "Grant School" means any English or Vernacular School in receipt of a Grant under the Code.
6. The term "Inspector ployed by the Government as Needlework.
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means the Inspector of Schools or any person em- Acting In-pector, Sub-Inspector, or Inspector of
7. The term "Managers" includes all persons who have the management of aby
Grant School, whether the legal interest in the school house is or is not vested in them.
8. " Attendance" means attendance at instruction during four hours in one day.
Note (1.) The times constituting Attendances must be so arranged for each school as to render practic-
able an effective supervision of the Attendance Registers. Note (ii.) The class registers must be marked and finally closed before the minimum time constituting an Attendance begins. If any Scholar entered in the register as attending is withdrawn from school before the time constituting an Attendance is complete, the entry of Attend- ance should be at once cancelled.
Note (iii) The minimum time constituting an Attendance may include an interval for recreation of not more that 15 minutes in a meeting of three hours, and not more than 10 minutes in a shorter meeting.
Note (iv) Visits paid during the school hours, under proper guidance, to Museums, Art Galleries, and other places of educational value, or of national or historical interest, may be reckoned in making up the minimum times constituting an Attendance, provided that not more than ten such Attendances may be claimed for any one Scholar in the same School Year, and tha. the places to be visited and the arrangements for such visits are approved by the Inspectort Note (v.) No Attendance is, as a rule, recognised for any Scholar under five years of age, or over 20 years
of age, without the express consent of the Inspector.
9. An Attendance may, with the approval of the Inspector, be divided into two Half-Attendances of not necessarily equal duration. The marking of these Half-Attendances will be carried out as indicated in Article 8.
10. The "Average Attendance" for any period is found by dividing the total number of Attendances made during that period by the number of times on which the school has met during that period.
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11. The Annual Grant List" is a register, kept by the Inspector, of all schools in receipt of a Grant under the Code.
Note (i) The Annual Grant to a school begins to run, as a rule, from the date on which the school is
placed upon the Annual Grant List.
Note (ii) Any school from which the entire Annual Grant is withheid, is at once removed from the Annual Grant List, and cannot be replaced thereon until a fresh application has been addressed to the Inspector.
12. The "School Year" is the year or other period for which an Annual Grant is for the time being paid or payable under this Code.
Note (1.) The Grant becomes payable on the first day of the mouth following the end of the School Year The Government at the time of agreeing to place a school on the Annual Graut List in forms. the Managers in what month the Grant will become payable, and this month continues the same from year to year, unless the Government informs the Managers of a change.
Note (ii) An instalment of the Grant may be paid when, owing to a change in the date of the School Year, or any other sufficient cause, the time at which the Grant would otherwise be payable is delayed by three months or more.
Note (iii) Where a Grant is payable for a school which has been closel, the amount of such Grant shall not as a rule exceed the amount of the net outstanding liabilities on current account of the School at the time of its closing.
13. The Managers may adopt for purposes of instruction an Educational Year, tional year." which need not be identical with the School Year.