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Amendment
of section fi,
Amendment
3.
Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is amended by-
(a) the insertion in subsection (1), after the word "schools",
of the following-
"and the managers, teachers and pupils thereof";
(b) the deletion of subsection (2) and the substitution there-
for of the following-
"(2) The Governor in Council may by order in the Gazette exempt for such period, if any, as may be specified in the order either wholly or in part from the provisions of this Ordinance or of the regula- tions, and either absolutely or subject to such condi- tions as he may think fit to impose, any school or class or category of school, and the managers, teachers or pupils thereof;
Provided that nothing in any such order exempt- ing a school from the provisions of section 8 shall prevent application for registration being made for such school and the registration of such school in accordance with the provisions of Part Il and where any such registration is made such exemption shall cease to have effect. "';
(c) the deletion, from subsection (3), of the words "instruc- tion in each week total less than five" and the substitution therefor of the following-
J'academic instruction in each week total less than five, and, in like manner, may exempt, the managers, teachers or pupils thereof.
4. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended by being of section & renumbered subsection (1) of section 8, and by the insertion there-
in of the following new subsection—
"(2) Where any school provides evening instruction in addition to other instruction, there shall be deemed to be a separate school in respect of such evening instruction and such separate school shall be separately registered under this Ordinance.",
5.
Amendment of section
Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is amended by- (a) the deletion from subsection (1) of the word "section" 10.
and the substitution therefor of the following-
"sections 10A and";
(b) the deletion from subsection (3) of the last word and the
substitution therefor of the following-
6.
"school".
The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition after Addition section to of the following new sections-
"Schoole in premises not de-
signed and constructed for the PUTPOSES
of a school.
af new sections 10A and
10A. (1) An application for registration of a 108. school which is to be operated in premises not designed and constructed for the purposes of a school shall be accompanied by-
(a) a certificate from the Director of Public Works as to his opinion with regard to the suitability of the premises, in relation to the loading for which they were designed and constructed, for the purposes of a school;
(b) a certificate from the Director of Public Works that the premises do not have structural tim- ber foors;
(e) a certificate from the Chief Officer that the use of the premises for the purposes of a school would not give rise to any undue risk of fire or danger from panic in the event of fire:
(d) where the premises are situated in a part of the Colony to which the Buildings Ordinance, 1955. applies, a notice in writing from the Building Authority, or any officer of the Public Works Department, to whom the Building Authority may, under subsection (a) of section 2 of that Ordinance, have delegated the exercise of the powers vested in him by section 16 thereof, that, if the school is regis- tered, he does not intend, in exercise of the