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PART I.
Section 1.—The County Council is to be the Local Education
Authority.
Power to
aid Higher
Education.
PART II.— HIGHER EDUCATION.
Section 2.—The Local Education Authority are to consider
the educational needs of their area and take such steps
as they deem desirable, after consultation with the Board of
Education, to supply or aid the supply of education other than
elementary, and to promote the general co-ordination of all
forms of education and for that purpose to apply all or so
much as they deem necessary of the residue under Section I.
of the Local Taxation Act, 1890, and to carry forward for the
like purpose any balance thereof which may remain unexpended
and may spend such further sums as they think fit.
Religions
Instruction.
Section 4.—The County Council in the application of
money under this Part of the Act shall not require that any
particular form of religious instruction or worship or any
religious catechism or formulary which is distinctive of any
particular denomination shall or shall not be taught, used, or
practised in any school, college, or hostel aided but not provided
by the Council, and no pupil shall, on the ground of
religious belief, be excluded from or placed in an inferior
position in any school, college, or hostel provided by the
Council, and no catechism or formulary distinctive of any
particular religious denomination shall be taught in any
school, college, or hostel so provided, except in cases where
the Council at the request of the parents of scholars at such
times and under such conditions as the Council think desirable
allow any religious instruction to be given in the school,
college, or hostel, otherwise than at the cost of the
Council. No unfair preference is to be shown to any religious
denomination.
Powers and
duties.
PART III.— ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.
Section 5.—The Local Education Authority have throughout
their area all the powers and duties of a School Board
and School Attendance Committee under the Elementary
Education Acts, 1870-1900, and have control of all secular
instruction in public elementary schools not provided by them.
Management
of
Schools.
Section 6.—All public elementary schools not provided
by the Local Education Authority are to have in place of the
existing Managers, a body of Managers consisting of a number
of Foundation Managers not exceeding 4, together with 2