Elementary Education Act 1871 Amendment Act 1877 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUADRAGESEU0 PRIMO

VICTORUE REGINIE

No. 11

An Act to further amend The Elementary Education

Act, 1871.' [Assented to 16th August, 1877.

HEREAS it is expedient to amend ' The Elementary Educa- Preamble

Wthe Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by andtion Act, 1871 ' ; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency

with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as

follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as ' The Elementary Education Act, short,,,,,

1871, Amendment Act, 1877.'

2. Section twenty, and section twenty-six, sub-section three, of the Repeal of sec. 20 and see. 25, sub-

said Act, as amended by sections one and two of an Act passed in the

see, 3 of 35 Vie.,

38th year of Her present Majesty and intituled An Act to amend

No,14

"The Elementary Education Act, 1871," ' shall be and the same are

hereby repealed.

3. In lieu of the provisions of the said twentieth section, it is nne»

hereby provided that from and after the first day of January after the sse„Iplio)ooliterw

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Elementary Education—Amendment

passing of this Act there shall be appropriated, out of the Educational Grant for each year, for the support of Government Schools through- out the Colony, a sum not exceeding the sum of Three pounds ten shillings per head per annum, calculated upon the total aggregate average daily attendance of all children, above the age of four years and under the age of sixteen years, who shall have attended the said schools for not less than four hours per diem. Provided always that a continuous attendance for two hours for secular instruction by any such child in any one day shall count as half a day's attendance, for the purpose of the said calculation. And the said sum, or any part thereof, shall be payable to the teachers of the said schools, according to such rules and scales as may from time to time be made in that behalf by the Central Board of Education.

Assseed schools. 4. And in lieu of the provisions of section twenty-six, sub-section three, aforesaid, it is hereby provided that from and after the first day of January after the passing of this Act there shall be appro- priated, out of the Educational Grant for each year, for a grant-in-aid to Assisted Schools throughout the Colony, a sum not exceeding the sum of One pound fifteen shillings per head per annum, calculated upon the total aggregate average daily attendance of all children, above the age of four years and under the age of sixteen years, who shall have attended the said schools for not less than four hours per diem. Provided always that a continuous attendance for two hours for secular instruction by any such child in any one day shall count as half a day's attendance, for the purpose of the said calculation. And the said sum, or any part thereof, shall be payable according to such rules and scales as may from time to time be made in that behalf by the Central Board of Education. Provided also, that no such grant-in-aid shall be given to any such school when the number of scholars in average daily attendance is less than twenty.

ho■t sorPorted

WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON,

GOVERNOR.