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Arrangements
between
Councils.
Section 20.—An Authority having powers under the Act
may make arrangements with the County Council or a
Borough Council on such terms and conditions as may be
agreed upon for the exercise of any powers of the authority in
respect of the management of any school or college within
the area of the Council.
Schemes.
Section 21 applies the provisions of the Public Health Act,
1875, which relate to provisional orders to any scheme for
the constitution of the Education Committee.
Elementary
and Higher
Education.
Section 22.—The expression "elementary school" is not
to include any school carried on as an evening school under
the regulations of the Board of Education. The power to provide
instruction under the Elementary Education Acts is,
except where those Acts expressly provide to the contrary, to
be limited to the provision in a public elementary school of
instruction given under the regulations of the Board of
Education to scholars who at the close of the school year will
not be more than 16 years of age. But the Local Education
Authority may, with the consent of the Board of Education,
extend those limits in the case of any school if no suitable
higher education is available within a reasonable distance of
the school.
Section 23 authorises the provision of vehicles or the
payment of reasonable travelling expenses for teachers or
children attending school or college, and empowers Councils
to make provision for the purposes of supplying or aiding the
supply of education other than elementary outside their area
in cases where they consider it expedient to do so in the
interests of their area, and to provide or assist in providing
scholarships for and to pay the fees of students ordinarily
residents in their area at schools, colleges, or hostels within
or without that area. Teachers in a school maintained but
not provided by the Local Education Authority are in the
same position as respects disqualification for office as members
of the Authority as teachers in a school provided by the
Authority. [The Bill for the Act of 1903 as introduced into
the House of Commons proposed to add the following words
to this provision, viz.:—"and the office of a teacher in a
"school provided by the Local Education Authority shall be
"deemed to be an office in the gift or disposal of the County
"Council and, as respects any school managed by the Council
"of a Metropolitan Borough a paid office under the Council of
"that Borough." These words were not however added to
the provision.]