PART III.-SPECIAL PROVISIONS.

Evening Scholars.

106. The managers of any school to which annual inspection has already been promised (Article 11) may apply in writing, before the 1st of January, to the Inspector of the district for an examination of their evening scholars (Article 22). The application must be renewed annually to the inspector.

107. Only one examination is held per annum of evening scholars in the same school, and it may be held on any day, between the 1st of January and 30th of April, that may be arranged with the inspector, provided that the school has met the required number of times (Article 22) since the date of the last examination.

108. If the evening school is connected with a day school in receipt of annual grants, and the accounts of the two schools are kept as one account, the grant for the examination of the evening scholars is paid as part of the next annual grant to the whole school (Article 13).

109. If the evening school is not connected with a day school in receipt of annual grants, or, being so connected, has a distinct and separate account, the grant is paid as soon as possible after the 30th of April; at which date, in such cases, the evening school year is considered to end.

110. The inspector may make arrangements for the examination, at some convenient centre, of the evening scholars of several schools.

111. A separate examination will not be held for any school, unless twenty scholars are to be presented to the inspector. If less than twenty scholars are to be presented, they can be examined only at a collective examination (Article 110), or at the same time with the day scholars. The number to be presented must be stated in the managers' annual application (Article 106) to the Inspector.

112. The inspector may either hold the examination himself, or entrust it to an assistant approved by the Department.

Certificates of Proficiency under the Elementary Education Act, 1876,
under bye-laws, or under any Labour Act.

113. Certificates of proficiency will be granted only after an examination held, as hereinafter described, by one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of schools, or his assistant. No separate examination of individual children will be held for the purpose.

113 (a). The Inspector, after any visit paid to a school with notice (Article 11), will grant such certificates as may be required for children who have reached the standard prescribed by, or pursuant to the provisions of, the Elementary Education Act, 1876, or of any bye-law of the local authority of the district, or of any Act for regulating the education of children employed in labour.

113 (b). Certificates will be issued for those scholars only who pass in all the three subjects in the prescribed standard, or in a higher standard.

114. For the purpose of these certificates the Inspector or his assistant will examine

1. Any scholars in the school:

2. Other children, resident in the district, not being scholars in the school, allowed by the managers to attend the examination, on the application of the local authority of the district,' or of a local committee.2 115. When the candidates for certificates of proficiency in a district, not being scholars in an aided school, are more than 15 in number, application for a special examination may be made by the local authority, or by a local committee, subject to the following regulations:

(a) The application shall be sent to the Inspector for the district not less than 20 days before the date at which it is desired that the examination should be held.

(b) The local authority, or local committee, must specify the number of children to be presented for examination, and must undertake

That all children within their district for whom certificates are needed will be allowed to attend the examination; and

That a convenient room will be provided for the examination on such day, and at such hour, as shall be fixed by the Inspector. 116. The special examination may also be attended by any child qualified by age for full time employment who, having failed to pass, at the examination of its school, in one or more of the three subjects in the standard prescribed in the district, either by the Act of 1876 or by the bye-laws of the district, wishes to be examined again for the purpose of obtaining a certificate.

116 (a). A child cannot be examined a second time until three months have elapsed since the date of the examination at which it failed, and must on each occasion be examined in all the three subjects of the standard in which it is presented.

117. The Inspector will not grant certificates to individual children. He will forward to the managers of each school at which he has held an examination, and to the local authority, or local committee, in the case of each special examination, a schedule showing the results of the examination of each child, and deputing the teacher of the school, or an officer of the local authority or local committee, to grant certificates to such children as have passed successfully.

117 (a). When this schedule is sent to the managers of a school, or to a local committee, they shall forthwith transmit a certified copy of it to the local authority for record.

1 See Elementary Education Act, 1876, ss. 7 and 33, ante.
2 Ibid., s. 32.

CHAPTER III.

PENSIONS.

118. A limited number of pensions will be granted to teachers who were employed in that capacity at the date (9th May 1862) when the minutes' relating to pensions were cancelled:

(1.) The proposed pensioner must

(a.) Be a certificated teacher in a public elementary school, or training college, at the time when the pension is applied for.

(b.) Have become incapable, from age or infirmity, of continuing to teach a school efficiently.

(c.) Have been employed continuously since the 9th of May, 1862, as principal or assistant teacher in elementary schools, or training colleges.

(d.) Be recommended by Her Majesty's Inspector, and the managers of the

schools served in.

(e.) Be 60 years of age (if a man), or 55 (if a woman), unless the pension is applied for on the ground of failure of health.

(2.) Pensions will be granted to those teachers only who have been, during the seven years preceding the application on their behalf, employed in schools or colleges under inspection, and are deserving of such assistance.

(3.) Applications for a pension will be received only from the managers of the school in which the teacher is serving at the date of retirement.

(4.) These applications will be collected for decision, on their comparative merits, twice a year, about Lady Day and Michaelmas.

(5.) Teachers who entered on the charge of a school before 1851, will be regarded, cæteris paribus, as having the first claim.

(6.) The maximum number and value of pensions receivable at one time, in England and Scotland together, will be as follows:

(7.) The pension will be paid yearly, on certificates proving identity and good behaviour.

1 Minutes of 25th August and 21st December, 1846, and 6th August, 1851.

CHAPTER IV.

REVISION OF CODE.

119. The Department, as occasion requires, may cancel or modify articles of the Code, or may establish new articles, but may not take any action thereon until the same shall have been submitted to Parliament, and shall have lain on the table of both Houses for at least one calendar month.

120. The Code shall be printed, each year, in such a form as to show separately all articles cancelled or modified, and all new articles, since the last edition, and shall be laid on the table of both Houses within one calendar month from the meeting of Parliament.

121. The Schedules and notes annexed to the Code shall have the same effect as the Articles of the Code, and shall be subject to the provisions of Articles 119 and 120.

122. The changes in this Code will not affect annual grants falling due before the first of April 1878.

QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATES OF PUPIL-TEACHERS AT
ADMISSION AND DURING THEIR ENGAGEMENT.

I.-HEALTH.1

For Admission (or end of first year if admitted before 1st May, 1878).—A medical certificate that candidate is not subject to any infirmity likely to interfere with profession of teacher.

End of First (or 2nd) year.—Certificate from managers that pupil-teacher has not suffered any failure of health likely to incapacitate for profession of teacher.

1 Scrofula, fits, asthma, deafness, great imperfections of the sight or voice, the loss of an eye from constitutional disease, or the loss of an arm or leg, or the permanent disability of either arm or leg, curvature of the spine, hereditary tendency to insanity, or any constitutional infirmity of a disabling nature, is a positive disqualification in candidates for the office of pupil-teacher."

End of Second (or 3rd) year.—Same as at end of first year, together with one from a medical practitioner.

End of Third (or 4th) year.-Same as at end of first year.

End of Fourth (or 5th) year.—Same as at end of first year.

N.B.-Copies of all these certificates should be entered in the log-book.

2.-CHARACTER AND CONDUCT.

For Admission (or end of first year if admitted before 1st May, 1878).—A certificate from managers that the moral character of the candidates and of their homes justifies an expectation that the instruction and training of the school will be seconded by their own efforts and the example of their parents. End of First (or 2nd) Year.-1. Certificate of good conduct from the

managers.

2. Certificate of punctuality, diligence, obedience, and attention to their duties, from the master or mistress.

End of Second Year, and each succeeding Year.-Same as above.
N.B.-Copies of all these certificates should be entered in the log-book.

3.-READING AND REPETITION.

For Admission (or end of first year if admitted before 1st May, 1878).—To read with fluency, ease, and expression.

End of First (or 2nd) Year.-To read as above; and to repeat 50 consecutive lines of poetry with just expression and knowledge of the meaning.

End of Second (or 3rd) Year.-To read as above; and to repeat 40 consecutive lines of prose.

End of Third (or 4th) Year.-To read as above; and to repeat 100 lines of poetry.

End of Fourth (or 5th) Year.-To read as above; and to repeat 80 lines of prose.

N.B. The passages for repetition in prose and poetry must be of a secular character, and taken from some standard English writer, approved by Her Majesty's Inspector. The meaning and allusions, if well known, will atone for deficiencies of memory.

4.--ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION.

For Admission (or end of first year, if admitted before 1st May, 1878).—The noun, verb, and adjective, with their relations in a simple sentence; and to write from dictation in a neat hand, with correct spelling and punctuation, a passage of simple prose.

[In the following years, copy writing, one line of large hand and one of small hand, will be required.]

End of First (or 2nd) Year.-The pronoun, adverb, and preposition, with their relations in a sentence; and to write from memory the substance of a passage of simple prose, read to them with ordinary quickness, or a short letter.

End of Second (or 3rd) Year.-The conjunction, with the analysis of sentences; and to write full notes of a lesson on a subject selected by the inspector.