Powers of board.
Review by
board.
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(2) The Governor may appoint a public officer to be the secretary of the board.
76. (1) Subject to this Ordinance, the practice and pro- cedure on a review by the board shall be such as the board may determine.
(2) For the purposes of a review the board shall have the following powers—
(a) to hear and examine witnesses on oath; and
(b) to summon any person to attend any hearing of the board to give evidence or produce any document or other thing in his possession and to examine him as a witness or require him to produce any document or other thing in his possession.
(3) A witness summons shall be in such form as the chair- man of the board shall direct and shall be signed by the chairman.
(4) Any person who, being summoned to attend as a witness or to produce any document or any other thing at a bearing of the board, refuses or neglects to do so or to answer any questions put to him by or with the concurrence of the board shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months:
Provided that no person shall be bound to incriminate bimself and every witness shall in respect of any evidence given by him before the board be entitled to the privileges to which he would be entitled if giving evidence before a court of justice.
(5) Any person—
(a) who behaves in an insulting manner Or uses any threatening or insulting expression to or in the presence
of the board; or
(b) wilfully disrupts the proceedings of the board, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months.
77. (1) A parent aggrieved by...
(a) an attendance order; or
(b) any variation of an attendance order,
may within fourteen days of the date of the order or the notice in writing apply to the board for a review.
(2) An application under subsection (1) may be oral or in writing.
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(3) Upon a review the board may either-
(a) confirm the attendance order or the variation; or (b) cancel the attendance order or the variation.
(4) The decision of the board shall be final.
(5) The secretary of the board shall notify the parent of the decision of the board.
78. Any parent who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with an attendance order (as the same may be varied from time to time) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months:
Provided that--
(a) if an application for a review of an attendance order is made, no offence shall be committed until after the secretary of the board has notified the parent under subsection (5) of section 77 of the decision on the review:
(b) if an application for a review of any variation of an attendance order is made, no offence shall be committed, by reason of a failure to comply with the variation, until after the secretary of the board has notified the parent under subsection (5) of section 77 of the decision on the review.
PART VIII.
ENSPECTION OF SCHOOLS.
Enforcement of order.
79. The Governor may by notice in the Gazette appoint by Appointment name or office-
of inspectors.
(a) any officer of the Education Department to be an
inspector of schools;
(b) any Government medical officer to be a medical officer
of schools; and
(c) any health inspector to be a health inspector of schools.
80. The Director and any inspector of schools may inspect any school for the purposes of ascertaining whether this Ordinance is being complied with and whether the school is being conducted satisfactorily.
Inspection
of schools.
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