approved the twenty-third day of December, 1924, being the Probate Rules, 1925,' with the amendments thereto, shall regulate the procedure and practice in the Supreme Court and in every County Court in the matters therein provided for.

"(3.) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), the orders and rules and their appendices, intituled Supreme Court Rules, 1925,' made by Order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council approved the twentyfifth day of August, 1925, and the orders and rules and their appendices made by further Order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council approved on the said twenty-fifth day of August, 1925, being the 'Divorce Rules, 1925,' shall respectively regulate the procedure and practice in the Supreme Court in the matters therein provided for. "(4.) The said orders and rules and their appendices referred to in subsections (1) to (3), except Schedules Nos. 4, 5, and 6 of Appendix M, and Appendix N of the said Supreme Court Rules, 1925,' may be altered, added to, varied, amended, or repealed, and other orders and rules and appendices may be substituted therefor by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council as by this or any other Act is provided.

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"(5.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Supreme Court Act' or in this Act, the taxation of costs as between party and party or solicitor and client shall be governed by, and the Registrar in any taxation of costs shall allow all such costs, fees, charges, and disbursements as are prescribed in Schedules Nos. 4, 5, and 6 of Appendix M, and Appendix N of the said 'Supreme Court Rules, 1925,' or in any tariff in amendment thereof or substitution therefor prepared and approved from time to time by Judges of the Supreme Court."

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by CHARLES F. BANFIELD, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

1925.

R.S.B.C. 1924, c. 226.

[Assented to 19th December, 1925.]

H'

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Public Schools Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1925."

2. Section 5 of the "Public Schools Act," being chapter 226 of Amends s. 5. the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1924," is amended by striking out clause (c), and substituting therefor the following:

"(c.) Have charge of the issuing of certificates of qualification to teachers, Inspectors, and Municipal Inspectors of Schools."

3. Section 7 of said chapter 226 is amended by adding thereto the Amends s. 7. following subsection:-

"(3.) A Chief Inspector of Schools may be appointed whose duty it shall be to inspect normal schools, to assist in co-ordinating the work of inspection and supervision of schools throughout the Province, to conduct experimental studies in education, and generally to perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Superintendent of Education."

4. Section 12 of said chapter 226 is amended by striking out clause Amends s. 12. (i), and substituting therefor the following:

"(i.) To determine the grades and classes of teachers' certifi

cates and the qualifications required for all grades and
classes of teachers' certificates, and to determine the
qualifications required for certificates for Provincial
Inspectors and Municipal Inspectors of Schools; and to
make rules governing the granting of all such certificates."

Further amends 8. 12.

Amends s. 13.

Amends s. 23.

Amends s. 40.

Amends s. 50.

Amends s. 89.

Amends s. 102.

5. Section 12 of said chapter 226 is further amended by adding thereto the following clause:

"(o.) To make provision, by agreement with such teachers as

may desire to become a party thereto, for the creation and maintaining of a fund out of which shall be paid pensions to those who, having rendered long service in the profession, are unable to continue on account of ill-health or old age."

6. Section 13 of said chapter 226 is amended by adding thereto the following clause:

"(e.) To conduct and maintain a school for the deaf and the blind children of the Province."

7. Section 23 of said chapter 226 is amended by inserting after the word "the," in the second line of clause (a), the words "provisions of this Act and the."

8. Section 40 of said chapter 226 is amended by adding thereto the following proviso:

"Provided that where trustees have been elected by acclamation or where doubt exists as to the term for which any trustee has been elected at any annual or other election of trustees for any school district, whether heretofore or hereafter held, and whether the school district is one constituted by or under this Act or by or under a special Act, the term for which such trustees or trustee shall hold office respectively shall be determined by the Superintendent of Education."

9. (1.) Section 50 of said chapter 226 is amended by inserting after the word "district," in the fifth line of clause (a) of subsection (1), the words "under six or."

(2.) Said section 50 is further amended by striking out clause (f), and substituting therefor the following:

"(f.) To furnish school-houses and procure furniture, maps,

and apparatus; and provide text-books for indigent pupils; and also, if considered advisable by the Board, to purchase prescribed text-books and necessary school supplies, which it shall provide free or at cost to the pupils in attendance at the public schools of the district."

10. Section 89 of said chapter 226 is amended by striking out the words "for any " in the third line of clause (b), and substituting therefor the words or for any other."

11. Section 102 of said chapter 226 is amended by inserting after the word "indebtedness," in the first line of clause (d), the words "with or without interest coupons attached."

12. (1.) Section 133 of said chapter 226 is amended by adding to Amends s. 133. clause (b) of subsection (1) the words "but no appointment made to fill a vacancy caused by the dismissal of a teacher who within five days from the receipt by him of the notice of dismissal gives notice to the Board of his intention to appeal to the Council of Public Instruction shall be valid or binding unless the action of the Board in dismissing that teacher is confirmed by the Council of Public Instruction."

(2.) Said section 133 is further amended by striking out the words "to dismiss, in its discretion" in the first line of clause (c) of subsection (1), and substituting therefor the words "subject to the provisions of subsection (2), to dismiss."

(3.) Said section 133 is further amended by adding to subsection (1) the following clause:

"(k.) To allow students enrolled in the normal schools or in

the teachers' training class at the University of British
Columbia to attend any class-room of any public school
in the district, at any time while it is in session, for the
purpose of observation and practice teaching.”

(4.) Said section 133 is further amended by striking out subsection (2), and substituting therefor the following:

“(2.) Nothing in this section shall confer on any teacher a right to any length of notice of dismissal, or to salary in lieu of notice, where the teacher has been suspended or dismissed by the Board of School Trustees for gross misconduct; but every teacher suspended or dismissed by the Board for any reason may appeal to the Council of Public Instruction, which, if it appears from reports available that an injustice has been done the teacher, may appoint some responsible person to take evidence on the matter and report the same to the Council of Public Instruction, and on consideration of the evidence so reported, or on consideration of any other evidence satisfactory to the Council of Public Instruction, it may confirm or reverse the action of the Board."

13. Section 137 of said chapter 226 is amended by striking out Amends s. 137. the words "an advanced course of instruction in" in the second

and third lines, and substituting therefor the words "a course of instruction in games and."

14. Section 140 of said chapter 226 is amended by adding to Amends s. 140. subsection (1) the words " but in no case shall a tuition fee be pay

able in respect of a pupil residing in the district who is under fifteen years of age."

15. Section 151 of said chapter 226 is amended by adding thereto Amends s. 151. the following subsection:

"(2.) Except as to persons serving as Provincial or Municipal Inspectors of Schools at the time of the enactment of this subsection,

Amends s. 152.

Re-enacts s. 155.

Amends s. 159.

no person shall be appointed or retained by any Board of School
Trustees as a Municipal Inspector of Schools unless he holds a
Municipal Inspector's certificate of qualification issued by the
Department of Education."

16. Section 152 of said chapter 226 is amended by adding thereto the following clause:

"(k.) To admit to his class-room for the purpose of observation and practice teaching pupils enrolled in the normal schools or in the training class for teachers at the University of British Columbia, and to render, without additional remuneration or salary, such assistance to the students and instructors of such schools and training class as the intructors may consider necessary for the proper training of the students."

17. Section 155 of said chapter 226 is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor:

"155. In case a public school or any class-room or department of a public school is summarily closed for any cause, the appointment of each teacher engaged in that school, class-room, or department, unless he has been assigned to some other public school or some other class-room or department of a public school in the same school district, shall, upon notice in writing from the Board of School Trustees or from the Superintendent of Education, terminate, and he shall not be paid salary for a longer period than one month from the date on which the notice is mailed to him by registered mail; but where a public school, class-room, or department is so closed at the end of a school term, a teacher whose appointment is being ter minated shall not be entitled to any salary after the public school, class-room, or department is closed, if he was given at least one month's notice of the intention to close the same by the Board of School Trustees or by the Superintendent of Education."

18. Section 159 of said chapter 226 is amended by inserting after the word "committed," in the third line of subsection (4), the words "or of some person appointed by the Board of School Trustees for the purpose of giving or withholding such consent."

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by CHARLES F. BANFIELD, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
1925.