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that the number of those Managers and the manner in which schools
shall be grouped under one body of Managers shall be determined by the
Council of each Borough, after consultation with the Local Education
Authority, and subject to the approval of the Board of Education.
Two-thirds of every such body are to be appointed by the Borough
Council, and one-third by the Local Education Authority. Due regard
is to be had in selecting Managers to the inclusion of women in the proportion
of not less than one-third of the whole body of Managers,—and
in the case of the first body of Managers also of Members chosen from
the then existing bodies of Managers. The Borough Council and the
Local Education Authority are to carry out any directions given by the
Board of Education for the purpose of giving effect to this provision.
The site of any new public elementary school to be provided by the Local
Education Authority is not to be determined upon until after consultation
with the Borough Councils in whose area the proposed site is situated,
and in the case of compulsory purchase if the Borough Council does
not concur in the compulsory acquisition, the Board of Education are
not to make the order authorising the purchase unless they are satisfied
that the concurrence of the Borough Council should be dispensed with.
Except in the case of compulsory acquisition, schools provided by the
Local Education Authority for the blind, deaf, epileptic, and defective
children, and any other schools which in the opinion of the Board of
Education are not of a local character, are not to be treated for the
purpose of this section as public elementary schools.
Section 3 provides that any public elementary school provided by
the London School Board before the passing of the Act which is wholly
or partly situated outside the County of London shall be treated as,
and for the purpose of the principal Act be deemed to be, situate in the
nearest Metropolitan Borough, and any public elementary school provided
by the Local Education Authority situated partly in one Borough
and partly in another shall be deemed to be situate in such one of those
Boroughs as the Local Education Authority determine.
Section 5 provides that, except as expressly provided, the Act shall
come into operation on the appointed day, and that the appointed day
shall be the First of May, 1904, or such other day not being more than
twelve months later as the Board of Education may appoint, and that
different days may be appointed for different purposes and different
provisions of the Act.
The First Schedule modifies certain provisions of the Act of
1902. These modifications are made in the following
abstract of that Act. The Second Schedule sets out the
enactments repealed.
The Education Act 1902, as modified for London by the
Act of 1903, is to the following effect, viz.:—