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45. The following Capitation Grants are made to English Schools:-
Capitation
A
Grant.
1.
Matriculation
and Senior Local Grants.
Junior Local Grant.
Honours Grant.
Refund of fees.
Epidemic
tants.
Rent Grants.
Buikling
Grant,
Capitation Grant of $24, 822 or $20 for each pupil in the Higher Classes; of $20, $18 or $16 for each pupil in the Remove Classes; and of $16, $14 and $12 for each pupil in the Lower and Infant Classes, reckoning in each case by the Average Attendance.
B. A Grant of $50 will be given for each pupil in Class 1 presented for the Hongkong University Matriculation or Senior Local Examination held in July each year.
A Grant of $80 will be given for each pupil in Class 2 presented for the Hongkong University Junior Local Examination held in July each year.
D. An additional Grant of $70 will be given for each pupil who matriculates with honours at the Hongkong University in July each year,
E. The grants enumerated under sub-heads B and C will also be paid for pupils who through sickness or other good cause to the satisfaction of the Director are unavoidably absent from examina- tion.
Any fees paid to the University by Candidates for the examinations
specified in Article 36 will be refunded by the Government.
46. The Senior Local and Honours Grants will be given in respect of such pupils only as shall have been in attendance at the school claiming the Grant for at least three years immediately preceding the date of the examination, and the Junior Local Grant will be given in respect of such pupils only as shall have been in attendance at the school claiming the Grant for at least two years immediately preceding the date of examination, provided that it shall be lawful for the Director to waive the conditions contained in this Article in exceptional cases.
47. The following Grants are made to Vernacular Schools:-
4.-A Capitation Grant of $11, 89 or $7 to Upper Grade Vernacular
Schools;
B-A Capitation Grant of $5, $4, or $3 to Lower Grade Vernacular
Schools.
48. When by reason of a notice of the Medical Officer of Health under Article 37 or by reason of any provision of law requiring the exclusion of certain children, or by reason of the exclusion under medical advice of children from infected houses. the Average Attendance has been seriously diminished, and consequently a loss of Grant would, but for this Article, be incurred, the Director may advise payment of a special Grant, not exceeding the amount of such loss, in addition to the ordinary Grants.
49 Grants not exceeding two-thirds of the Rental may be made English Schools and Vernacular Girls Schools occupying leased premises.
Note.-The Rental in reckoned as not exceeding that paid for similar bafflings in the immediate neighbour boot. In calculating this Grant ply that portion of the bailing will be regarde which is noturily used for the purposes of Day School
50. A Grant not exceeding one half of the actual cost may be made to build a new school or to enlarge or repair an existing school.
51. The site, plans, estimates, specifications, title, and trust deel, must be previously approved by the Government.
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52. The Trustees or other legal representatives of the school must state by a Declaration of Trust to be registered in the Land Office:-
(a.) That the premises will be used solely for educational purposes; (6.) That the school will be managed in accordance with the Grant Code
in force for the time being;
(c.) That if they should hereafter desire to release themselves from the foregoing obligations, they will repay the whole amount of the Grant.
The Grant is paid on presentation of a Certificate (with balance sheet annexed), by the Trustees or other legal represensatives of the school, setting forth that the building and conveyance are completed and that the money in hand, will, when added to the Grant, meet all claims and finally close the account,
53. The Government will decide each year which Grants should be paid to Assessment ench school or whether no Grant should be paid, upon the advice of the Director. of Granis. In making his recommendation the Director will be guided by the adequacy of the Staff, premises, and equipment, the standard of instruction, the discipline, or ganisation, and general character and tone of each school and by the extent to which it has complied with the conditions of the Code.
Provided that nothing in this Article shall limit the power either of the Government or of the Director under Chapter X of this Code.
CHAPTER X.
REMOVAL OF SCHOOLS FROM THE GRANT LIST.
the Register
54. If a Grant School has been struck off the Register by the Director by virtue schools of his powers under Sections 16 and 17 of the Education Ordinance, 1913, and if struck off the Manager of such school has not appealed to the Governor-in-Council or in the under the event of his having appealed, if the appeal has not been upheld, and the school has Education been closed in consequence, the school shall be struck off the Annual Grant List Ordinance. from the date on which it was struck off the Register. A Grant may thereupon be paid to such school up to the date on which it was struck off the Annual Grant List at such rate as the Director may recommend.
55. A school may
be struck off the Grant List on the ground that it is inefficient Inefficicat or unnecessary.
But no school which has otherwise fulfilled the conditions of and unneces the Education Ordinance and of this Code shall be deprived of a Grant except in manner of
sary schools: the following maoner:~
removal.
(1.) The Director shall, in his annual report, report the school in- efficient or unnecessary and state specifically the grounds of his judgment, and the Government shall communicate the report to the Correspondent and give formal warning to him that the Grant may be withheld under this Article, if the Director again reports the School inefficient or unnecessary.
(2.) The Director shall, in his next annual report, and after a visit paid with due notice during the last month of the School Year, again report the school inefficient or unnecessary, and again state specifically the grounds of his judgment.
Note.-A school will as a rule be considered unnecessary if the average attendance falls below twenty.
56. Where any of the conditions set forth in the Code (except such as are specially imposed by law) are not fulfilled, or where a school has been struck off the Grant List under Article 55, the Government has power to pay the Grant or portion of the Grant, and to give a warning to the Correspondent that the Grant may be withheld next year if such conditions then remain still unfulfilled.
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