Application of English share of Customs and Excise Duties. 1.-(1.) Out of the English share of the local taxation (customs and excise) duties paid to the local taxation account on account of any financial year (a.) The sum of three hundred thousand pounds shall be applied for such purposes of police superannuation in England as hereinafter mentioned. (b.) The residue shall unless Parliament otherwise determines, be distributed between county and county borough funds, and carried to the Exchequer contribution accounts of those funds respectively, and applied under the Local Government Act, 1888, as if it were part of the English share of the local taxation probate duty, and shall be the subject of an adjustment between counties and county boroughs, according to section thirty-two of the said Act, by the Commissioners under that Act. (2.) The council of any such county or county borough may contribute any sum received by such council in respect of the residue under this section, or any part of that sum, for the purposes of technical education within the meaning of the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, and may make that contribution over and above any sum that may be raised by rate under that Act. See also secs. I, 2 & 3 of 54 Vict., c. 4, post. (3.) A county council may make any such contribution by giving the amount of the contribution or any part of that amount to any town council or other urban sanitary authority in their county for the purpose of the same being applied by such council or authority under the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, over and above any sum which can be raised under that Act by rate by such council or authority. See also secs. 1, 2 & 3 of 54 Vict., c. 4, post. TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION ACT, 1891. (54 Vict., c. 4.) An Act to amend the Law relating to Technical Instruction. BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Explanation of Powers of Local Authority as to Technical Instruction. 52 & 53 Vict., c. 76. 1.-(1.) Subject to the conditions and restrictions contained in the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, a local authority may(a.) Make such provision in aid of the technical or manual instruction for the time being supplied in school or institution outside its district as may, in the opinion of the authority, be necessary for the requirements of the district in cases where similar provision cannot be so advantageously made by aiding a school or institution within its district; and (b.) Provide or assist in providing scholarships for or pay or assist in paying the fees of students ordinarily resident in the district of the local authority at schools or institutions within or outside that district. (2.) In distributing the provision made in aid of technical or manual instruction, the local authority may consider all the circumstances of the case, and shall not be bound to distribute the provision so made exclusively in proportion to the nature and amount of efficient technical or manual instruction supplied by those schools or institutions respectively. Application of Balances. 53 & 54 Vict., c. 6ɔ. 2. Any moneys received by a county council under sub-section (1) (b) of section one of the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, and directed by resolution of the county council to be appropriated or to be set aside for the purposes of technical or manual instruction, shall, although not expended or specifically contributed or allotted in whole or in part before the end of the financial year, remain applicable for such purposes, and shall not be applied in manner provided by sub-section (2) and the following sub-sections of section twenty-three of the Local Government Act, 1888, until the county council shall have made an order for such application. Where a council shall have referred to a committee the question of appropriating to purposes of technical or manual instruction any sum consisting of the whole or any part of such moneys, this section, unless and until the council otherwise direct, shall, until the committee shall have made their report and the council shall have arrived at a decision thereon or the appointment of the committee shall have been rescinded, apply to such sum as if the same had been directed by the council to be appropriated to such purposes. Construction of 53 & 54 Vict., c. 60 s. I. 3. The expression "technical education" in section one of the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, shall be deemed to include both technical and manual instruction within the meaning of the Technical Instruction Acts, 1889 and 1891. Short Title and Construction. 4. This Act may be cited as the "Technical Instruction Act, 1891," and shall be construed as one with the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, and this Act and the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, may be cited together as the "Technical Instruction Acts, 1889 and 1891." SCHOOLS FOR SCIENCE AND ART ACT, 1891. An Act to facilitate the transfer of Schools for Science and Art to [5th August, 1891.] Local Authorities. Transfer of School for Science and Art or Literary or Scientific Institution to Local Authority. 1.-(1.) The managers of any school for science and art, or for science, or for art, or of any institution to which the Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854, applies, may make an arrangement with any local authority within the meaning of the Technical Instruction Act, 1889, for transferring the school or institution to that authority, and the local authority may assent to any such arrangement and give effect thereto, subject to the provisions of that Act. (2.) The provisions of section twenty-three of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, with respect to arrangements for the transfer of schools shall apply in the case of arrangements for the transfer of schools or institutions in pursuance of this section, with this modification, that for the purposes of transfers to a local authority references to the school board shall be construed as references to the local authority and references to the Education Department as references to the Department of Science and Art, and references to a school shall, in the case of an institution not being a school, be construed as references to the institution. (3.) In this section the expression "managers" includes all persons who have the management of any school or institution, whether the legal interest in the site and buildings of the school or institution is or is not vested in them. Short Title. 2. This Act may be cited as the "Schools for Science and Art Act, 1891." INDEX. ABSENCE FROM MEETINGS, vacation of office by, 219, 220. ACCOMMODATION, Public School. See Public School Accom- ACCOUNTANT of school board, duties as to books and accounts, ACCOUNTS AS TO EXPENSES of school attendance committees ACCOUNTS OF MANAGERS of schools provided by school board, ACCOUNTS OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEES ACCOUNTS OF SCHOOL BOARD, form of, to be prescribed by auditor of, 163: where and when audit of, to be held, 165, 166, 247, auditor may require declaration as to, 169; penalty for making false allowances and disallowances in, 166-169, 575, 576; penalties for attendance of, and production of books, &c., by officers at audit of, inspection of books and accounts by ratepayers, prior to and at audit copies of statement of, to be furnished, 171; abstract of statement ACCOUNTS OF SCHOOL FEES of non-pauper children, 621-624, ACTS OF 1870, 1873, and 1876, repeal of parts of, 254, 255, 270, 335, ACTS, short titles of, 61, 228, 229, 272, 274, 345, 349, 359, 361, 376, 377. ACTS confirming Provisional Orders of Education Department, 96, 99. ADMISSION registers, 539-541. ADVENTURE SCHOOLS, 519. |