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the Board.
Contributors.
Provided that the Financial Secretary may direct that an annual supervision fee, to be determined by him, shall be charged against the income of the Fund and paid into the general revenue of the Colony.
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(1) The Board shall meet at such times and in such places as the Chairman may appoint:
Provided that in the month of February in each year an annuaL general meeting of the Board shall be held.
(2) At any meeting of the Board five members shall constitute a quorum.
(3) The validity of any proceedings of the Board shall not be affected by any vacancy among the members thereof or by any defect in the appointment of any member thereto,
(4) All questions coming or arising before any meeting of the Board shall be determined by a majority of the members present and voting thereon.
(5) The Chairman, or Vice-Chairman in the absence of the Chair- man, shall preside at any meeting of the Board and shall have an original vote and also, if upon any question the votes shall be equally divided, a casting vote.
(6) The proceedings at any meeting of the Board shall be recorded in the form of minutes maintained by the secretary and entered in a book maintained by the Board for that purpose.
(7) The Board may make standing orders for regulating the pro- cedure to be adopted at its meetings or otherwise in connexion with the conduct of its business.
7. (1) Every teacher approved for the purposes of the Subsidy Code and employed in a subsidized school (including any such teacher while on probation) shall be required to contribute to the Fund is the manner provided in rule 8, except-
(a) any teacher employed on a temporary basis:
(6) and teacher in receipt of salary based on a salary scale applica.
ble to unqualified teachers:
Provided that any such teacher may at his option cat- tribute to the Fund:
(c) any teacher who is in continuous contributory service otherwise than by reason of contributing to the Grant Schools Provident Fund:
Provided that any such teacher may at his option con- tribute to the Fund:
(d) any teacher who is over the age of fifty years upon his first
appointment to a subsidized school:
Provided that-
(i) the provisions of this sub-paragraph shall not apply in the case of any such teacher who, at the time of first appoint- ment to a subsidized school, is in continuous contributory service by reason of making contribution to the Grant Schools Provident Fund; and
(ii) any such teacher who, at the time of first appointment to a subsidized school, is in continuous contributory service otherwise than by reason of making contribution to the Grant Schools Provident Fund, may at his option contribute to the Fund:
(e) any teacher who is a member of a religious order, convent
or missionary body:
Provided that any such teacher may at his option con- tribute to the Fund;
(f) any teacher employed on a part time basis:
Provided that, subject to the approval of the Director, any such teacher may at his option contribute to the Fund. (2) Any option exercised pursuant to the provisions of paragraph
(1) may be exercised at any time, but shall-
(a) be irrevocable; and
(6) not be exercised with retrospective effect otherwise than-
or
(i) to the date of first appointment in a subsidized school,
(ii) for a period of three months, whichever is the less.
(3) Any question arising as to whether, for the purposes of paragraph (1), a teacher is employed on a temporary basis shall be determined by the Director whose decision shall be final.
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& (1) Contribution to the Fund shall be at the rate of five per Contribu- cent of the contributor's basic salary, including any allowances approved tions. for that purpose by the Director, and, except with the consent of the Director, shall only be payable in respect of periods during which full basic salary is drawn.
(2) Contributions shall be deducted from each contributor's salary monthly by the supervisor of the school who shall within seven days thereafter pay to the treasurer the amount of such deduction.
(3) It shall be the duty of the supervisor of every subsidized school to maintain a separate account for each contributor employed in the school and every such account shall specify-
(a) all contributions paid thereto;
(b) all donations made by Government thereto; and
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