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REPORT

on an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to

provide for the registration and supervision

of certain schools.

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Section 4 provides for the appointment of the necessary officers for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the

Ordinance.

Section 5 is important, providing as it does that every school with the exeeptions referred to in Section 3 must be regis-

tered under the provisions of the Ordinance.

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Section 6 provides the penalties which are necessary

in order to enable the provisions of the Ordinance to be carried

out effectively,

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The scheme of this Ordinance was submitted to

the Secretary of State for the Colonies under Despatch Confidential from His Excellency the Governor to the

Secretary of State for the Colonies on the 14th March

1913 and was approved of in principle by the Secretary

of State for the Colonies to His Excellency the Governor

in His Despatch Confidential No. 2759 dated 1st Kay 1913.

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The object of this Ordinance is to provide for

some means of controlling and supervising to some ex ent

certain of the Educational establishments which exist or

may be brought into existence in the colony. The echeme

of tile Ordinance is that every school shall be compulsorily

brought within the knowledge of the Department of Education.

The provisions of the Ordinance are not to apply in any way

to Government schools, Military schools or any other schools

which the Governor-in-Council may think fit to declare not

to be included within the purview of the Ordinance,

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Under the scheme of this Ordinance, schools are to

be divided into two main classes; firstly those of superior

type vhich will only be subject to a very limited amount of

supervision and con rol by the Education Department; secondly

schools of less superior type which will be subject to more

olose supervision and control by the Education Department.

Section 1 of the Ordinance is formal.

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Section 2 defines the various special phrases which

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are used in the Ordinance in connection with its provisions.

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Section 3 deals with those schools to which the Ordi-

nance does not apply.

Sections 7, 8, 9 and 10 provide a simple method by which

schoole may obtain registration under the Ordinance.

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Section 11 similarty provides the means by which a

school of the superior type mentioned above may obtain a certifi-

cate which will give it the advantages of limitation of its super-

vision and control by the Department of Education.

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Section 12 gives power to the "overnor-in-Council to

make regulations providing for the proper canitation and the en-

forcement of discipline in all schools; for the prohibition in

registered schools of the use of any undesirable book and for the

proper keeping of school re-isters and account books at register-

ed schools; also for the prescribing any other matter regarding

the proper conduct and efficiency of schools. Under Section 13

all such regulations must be published in the Gazette.

13/- Seution 14 provides for the inspection of registered

schools and for the more limited supervision of exempted schools.

14/- Section 1 gives a right of entry to schools at suitabl suitabi

hours for the principal officers of the Education Department.

15/- Sections 16 and 17 are important and provide for the

steps which may be taken in the event of a school being found

a result of inspection by the Education Department not to be com- plying with regulations applicable or not being conducted satis- factorily; and if the errors are not, after formal notice has been given for their rectification, duly amended, it is even

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