Interpreta- tion.
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2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"books and documents" includes any text-book, exercise- book, accounts, counterfoils, pamphlet, publication, news paper, poster, drawing, sketch, film, film-strip, slide, gramophone record and other printed, written or recorded matter, whether relating to instruction, recreation, school management or otherwise;
"building" includes part of a building;
"Director" means the Director of Education;
"functions" includes powers and duties;
"'inclusive fee" means the total sum of money charged in respect of the education of a pupil in a school and Includes all incidental charges;
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"manager" means a person who administers or takes any part in the administration or management of any school and in the case of any person or body of persons giving instruction by means of correspondence delivered by hand or through the postal services, the authors, editors, business managers and examiners employed in issuing lessons or in examining the work of pupils, and includes a supervisor; **principal" means the headmaster of a school; "register of managers", "register of schools" and "register of teachers' mean the respective registers maintained by the Director under section 7, and "registered" means entered upan one of such registers;
"school" means an institution or place which provides or where there is provided for ten or more persons kindergarten, primary, secondary, post-secondary or further education or other educational course, and in the case of instruction given by means of correspondence delivered by hand or through the postal services, the institution or place where the instruc- tion is prepared or where the work of the pupils is examined; "school premises" includes school playing fields and playgrounds; "supervisor" means that manager recommended by the managers
and approved by the Director as such under section 14; "teacher" includes principal;
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"kindergarten education" means education suitable to the requirements of children who have not attained the standard of primary education;
"primary education" means such as would normally be suitable for pupils of average intelligence between the approximate ages of six years and twelve years;
"secondary education" means such as would normally be suitable for pupils who have advanced beyond the standard of primary education up to the standard suitable for pupils of average intelligence of the approximate age of eighteen years; "post secondary education" means education beyond the stage of
secondary education;
**further education" includes education of any type or standard
given to adults.
3. (0) Subject to any general or special directions of the Director Governor, the Director of Education shall be charged with the education
to promote
superintendence of matters relating to education in the Colony. in the
(a) It shall be the duty of the Director to promote the educa tion of the people of the Colony and subject to the directions of the Governor to control and direct educational policy.
Colony.
4. The functions of the Director under the provisions of this Delegation
of Director's Ordinance and the regulations may be exercised and discharged powers. by the Deputy Director of Education and such other officers of the Education Department as may be authorized by the Director in that behalf.
5. (1) There shall be a Board of Education which shall have Board of power to advise the Governor upon educational matters.
(2) The Governor shall by notification in the Gazette appoint as chairman and members of the Board persons in his opinion qualified to represent the views of the community on educational matters, who shall hold office from the date of appointment until the 31st day of December in that year. The Board shall regulate its own procedure.
(3) Such officers of the Education Department as the Director may nominate shall attend the meetings of the Board.
Education.