Education and Public Instruction (Amendment) Act 1988 (NSW)

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

(AMENDMENT) ACT 1988 No. 28

NEW SOUTH WALES

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title

2. Amendment of Education and Public Instruction Act 1987 No. 62

3.     Saving of existing delegations

SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC INSTRUCTION (AMENDMENT) ACT

1988 No. 28

NEW SOUTH WALES

Act No. 28, 1988

An Act to amend the Education and Public Instruction Act 1987 to restore

the school certificate and for other purposes. [Assented to 6 July 1988]

Education and Public Instruction (Amendment) 1988

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Education and Public Instruction

(Amendment) Act 1988.

Amendment of Education and Public Instruction Act 1987 No. 62

2. The Education and Public Instruction Act 1987 is amended as set out

in Schedule 1.

Saving of existing delegations

A delegation under section 39 of the Education and Public Instruction Act 1987 and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be taken to be a delegation under that section, as substituted by this Act.

3.

SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS

(Sec. 2)

(1) Long title—

Omit "certificates of secondary education", insert instead "school certificates".

(2) Section 3 (Definitions)—

Section 3(1), definition of "secondary certificate"— certificate".

(3) Section 14 (Discipline in State schools)—

Omit section 14 (2), insert instead:

(2) The Director-General (but not the Minister) may suspend

or expel a child of any age from a State school.

(4) Section 30 (Functions of the Board)—

Section 30(1) (a)— insert instead "school certificates".

(5) Section 32 (School certificates)—

(a)

Section 32 (1)— certificates".

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(c)

Section 32 (1) (b), (2)— insert instead "school certificate".

(d) Section 32 (l)(c)—
Omit "or an approved stage of those courses".

(6) Section 33 (Higher school certificates)—

Section 33 ( l)(a)— education", insert instead "who have been granted a school certificate".

(7) Section 35 (Reconsideration of decisions)—

Section 35 (1)— certificate".

(8) Section 39—

Omit the section, insert instead:

Delegation by the Minister, the Director-General or the Board

39. The Minister, the Director-General or the Board may delegate to any person or body (including, in the case of a delegation by the Board, any committee of the Board) the exercise of any of their respective functions under this Act (other than the power of delegation conferred by this section).