members of the school staff will be recognised as sufficient for an
average attendance of scholars as follows:-

A certificated* head teacher for 50 scholars.
A certificated* assistant teacher for 60 scholars.
An assistant teacher fulfilling the conditions)
of Article 79 (a) or (b) of the Code of 1906,† or
Article 75 of the Regulations for the Training
of Teachers.

for 45 scholars.

for 35 scholars.

An assistant teacher fulfilling the conditions) of Article 79 (c) of the Code of 1906.† (d.) By one-twelfth for each month of interval between the employ. ment of two certificated teachers (Article 17 (d)), unless due to some exceptional and unavoidable cause, intimated at the time and accepted, by the Department as sufficient. This reduction is not made if the interval does not exceed three months, during which the school has been in charge of an uncertificated teacher.

(e.) Where a grant is payable for a school which has been closed, the amount of such grant shall not, as a rule, exceed the amount of the net outstanding liabilities on current account of the school at the time of its closing.

33. In the application of Article 32 (c.), due allowance will be made for any unforeseen increase of attendance during the year for which grants are being paid.

School Diary, Log-Book, &c.

34. In every school receiving annual grants, the managers must provide out of the school funds,

(a.) The Code and other regulations for the year.

(b.) All circulars and memoranda of the Department bearing upon methods of instruction, or relating to the management of the school.

(c.) Registers of attendance (Article 17 (f)).

(d.) A diary or log-book.

(e.) A portfolio to contain official letters, which should be numbered in the order of their receipt.

(f.) A time table and scheme of work (Article 19 A. 8). 35. The diary or log-book must be stoutly bound and contain not less than 300 ruled pages.

36. The principal teacher must make at least once a week in the logbook an entry which will specify the progress of the pupils, visits of managers, and other facts concerning the school or its teachers, such as the dates of withdrawals, commencements of duty, illness, visits of the compulsory officer, etc., which may require to be referred to at any future time, or may otherwise deserve to be recorded.

37. No reflections or opinions of a general character are to be entered in the log-book.

* Certificates of qualification granted by the Board of Education (England) will be accepted as equivalent to those granted by the Department. Applications for the recognition, for the purposes of this Article, of teachers' certificates granted by other recognised authorities will be considered individually as occasion arises. A teacher who is qualified for recognition as a Certificated Teacher, with the exception that he (or she) has failed to satisfy the Department of his (or her) physical capacity in the manner prescribed by the School Teachers Superannuation Rules (Scotland) 1899, may be recognised for the purposes of this Article.

+ See Article 71 of the Regulations for the Preliminary Education, &c., of Teachers, for the date at which recognition of these qualifications will cease.

Articles 32 (c.) (2.)

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Articles 38-118 (1.) (b.).

38. No entry once made in the log-book may be removed or altered otherwise than by a subsequent entry.

39. Any report by the Inspector, and any remarks made upon it by the Department, when communicated to the managers, must be immediately copied verbatim into the log-book.

40. The Inspector may call for the log-book and portfolio at any visit and will report whether they appear to have been properly kept. He will require to see entries accounting for any change in the school staff. He may also note in the log-book every visit paid without notice (Article 12), making an entry of such particulars as require the attention of the managers.

CHAPTERS III. and IV

41-112. Lapsed Articles.-For the subject matter of these chapters, reference is made to the Regulations for the Preliminary Education, Training, and Certification of Teachers for Various Grades of Schools, published separately.

CHAPTER V.

LABOUR CERTIFICATES.

113-117. Lapsed Articles.-The provisions of these Articles are superseded by the Education (Scotland) Act, 1901, which prescribes the conditions under which total or partial exemption from the obligation to attend school may be granted by School Boards to children under 14 years of age.

CHAPTER VI.

PENSIONS.

118. A limited number of pensions will be granted to teachers who were employed in that capacity as principal or assistant teachers at the date (6th August, 1872) of the passing of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872:

(1.) The proposed pensioner must—

(a.) Be a certificated teacher in a public, or State-aided 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, as a rule, been employed continuously since the 6th of Articles August, 1872, as principal or assistant teacher in elementary schools, or in training colleges. 118 (8.).

(d.) Be recommended by His 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.) As a rule, 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.) No pension may be granted to teachers who, in the exercise of their option under Section 5 of the Elementary School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1898, have accepted that Act in the prescribed

manner.

Provided that, if a teacher who has accepted the Act is proved, to the satisfaction of the Department, to be unable to qualify for an allowance under the Act, he may be granted a pension under this Article not exceeding £20 per annum.

(4.) As a rule, no pension will be granted to a teacher on whosa behalf application for a pension was not made before he attained the age of 65 years.

Where this condition is complied with, the Department may, on account of the teacher's special fitness, and on the application of the managers, allow his service to continue for a further limited time.

Where a pension is not granted, the applicant's status as a certifi cated teacher will not be affected by reason of his having attained the age of 65 years, or any greater age.

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

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

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

But this limit of the number of pensions shall not affect the claims of teachers who were employed before August 1851.*

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

* Minute of 16th June, 1881.

Articles 119-126.

CHAPTER VII.

TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

119. A school board may resolve that it is expedient to establish a technical school as defined by the Technical Schools (Scotland) Act, 1887.

Any such resolution may refer to a day or an evening school, and to a school or a department thereof; but each resolution must refer to one school or department only.

120. Before steps are taken to carry out that resolution—

(a.) The resolution must be published at least once in not less than two newspapers circulating in the district.

(b.) The resolution must be confirmed at a meeting of the school board held not earlier than one month after its first publication.

(c.) After such confirmation by the school board the resolution must be submitted to the Scotch Education Department and confirmed by a minute of that Department.

121. In submitting such resolution to the Scotch Education Department the school board shall furnish such information as is required by the Department, and in particular shall state

(a.) The circumstances connected with the industries of the district and the means already available therein for technical instruction, upon which the proposal is based.

(b.) The subjects which are to be taught in the school.

(c.) The scale of fees to be charged in the school.

The school board shall also furnish a sketch plan of the premises which it is proposed to erect or to employ for the technical school, and shall state whether it is proposed to apply for a loan.

122. If the resolution is confirmed by minute of the Scotch Education Department, the school board may proceed to establish the technical school.

123. Any modification of, or addition to, the list of subjects taught in the school must be submitted for the approval of the Scotch Education Department.

124. A separate account shall be kept of the fees derived from the technical school, and of all payments from the school fund on account of the school.

125. Attendance at a school or department established under the Technical Schools Act shall not be deemed to be attendance for the purpose of any grant under this Code.

126. If two or more school boards resolve to combine together for the purpose of providing and maintaining a technical school, the procedure shall be the same as that laid down in the preceding articles for a single school board.

CHAPTER VIII.

RELIEF OF FEES.

127. Sums of money are annually paid to the Scotch Education Department under the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, and, in certain contingencies, under the Education and Local Taxation Account (Scotland) Act, 1892, for distribution by that Department towards relief from the payment of school fees in State-aided schools in Scotland.

128. The amount so available, together with any sums voted by Parliament for the same purpose, shall be distributed to school boards in respect of the public day schools under their management which are on the list of schools conditionally entitled to share in the Parliamentary Grant for Education (35 and 36 Vict. c. 62. s. 67), and to the managers of other day schools and classes conditionally entitled to share in that grant, provided that such school boards and such managers shall conform to the conditions hereinafter set forth.

129. The distribution shall be made in respect of each financial year ending on the 31st of March, and shall be made in proportion to the average attendance of each school upon which annual grant was paid for the school year ended during the twelve months immediately preceding the 1st of March in such financial year.

130. The Department, upon such conditions and upon being furnished with such information as it may require, may, at certain dates between 1st April and 31st March in each financial year make one or more payments on account of the amount accruing to each school under the preceding article.

131. The full amount due to each school shall be calculated as soon as may be after the total average attendance at all the schools entitled to share in the grant during the prescribed period shall have been ascertained.

132. After the average attendance at all the schools entitled to share in the grant shall have been so ascertained, the Department shall, as soon as may be, calculate the amount due in respect of each scholar, and shall thereafter pay to each school the amount due to such school, over and above such payment or payments on account as may have already been made.

133. The following conditions shall be observed by the managers of all State-aided schools sharing in the grant in respect of such schools, and by the school boards in respect of the school provision in the public schools of their district :

No fees shall be exacted from scholars who are between 3 and 15 years of age.

134. A school board, with the sanction of the Scotch Education Department, and after supplying a sufficient number of schools in which relief from the payment of fees shall be given in accordance with Article 133, may maintain a certain number of schools in which fees are charged to infants and in all or any of the classes.

135. A copy of the regulations as to relief from the payment of school fees, applicable to each school, as approved by the Scotch Education Department, shall be publicly exhibited in each school.

136. In the case of a school board, the payments due in respect of all the schools under the management of the board may be made to the Treasurer of the school board.

Articles 127-136.