The Council of Public Instruction has directed the publication of a revised Manual of the Educational Statutes and Regulations, comprising "The Education Act," and such portion of "The Towns' Incorporation Act," and other Acts as relate to the management of schools in Incorporated Towns, together with the Comments and Regulations of the Council of Public Instruction.

The Public Schools of the Province of Nova Scotia, are to be conducted agreeably to the provisions herein published.

Halifax,

A. H. MacKAY,

Superintendent of Education and Secretary C. P. I.

18 February, 1921.

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EDUCATION STATUTES, 1920.

This consolidation of the Education Statutes up to the year 1920, is made by the Education Department for the convenience of school trustees and teachers. It is not a statutory or legal revision.

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Education Act." 1911, C. 2, S. 1.

PART I.

INTERPRETATION.

2. In this Part, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires,—

"Council" means Council of Public Instruction;

"Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Education;

"District Board" means Board of District School Commissioners;

"District" means any locality for which a district board is appointed;

"Trustees" means the trustees of a school section;

"Teacher" means a person holding a legal certificate of qualification for teaching a public school;

"Municipality" means any locality under the jurisdiction of a municipal council;

"School section" or "section" means a locality the public school or schools of which are managed by a board of trustees or commissioners;

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"Boarder-section" means a section comprising portions of two or more municipalities;

"Ratepayer" means a person assessed and rated upon the municipal rate-roll;

"Secretary" means secretary of trustees. 1911 C. 2, Sec. 2.

SCHOOLS TO BE FREE.

3. (1) All schools established under the provisions of this Act shall be free schools, and every person over five years of age resident in a school section shall, subject to the regulations of the council, have the right to attend the school in that section. 1911, C. 2, Sec. 3. Am.

(2) The school year shall begin on the first of August and end the last day of July. 1918, C, 9, Sec. 25 (6).

COUNCIL OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

4. The members of the Executive Council shall constitute the Council of Public Instruction. Five of such members shall form a quorum 1911, C. 2, Sec. 4.

5. The Council of Public Instruction shall have power

(1) (a) to direct, in all cases not specifically provided for by statute, the expenditure of such sums of money as are from time to time appropriated by the Legislature for educational purposes, and to prepare and publish regulations under which moneys may be drawn and expended;

(b) to appoint a principal of the Provincial Normal College; to appoint such assistant teachers, for such college, as are found necessary, and to fix the salaries of such principal and teachers;

(c) to prescribe the conditions of admission to and of graduation from the Provincial Normal College, and generally to make regulations for efficiently conducting the work of such college;

(d) to divide the province into inspectorial divisions, and upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Education to appoint an Inspector of Schools for each of such divisions; to make regulations for the direction of such inspectors in the performance of their duties, and such provision for their payment, as from time to time are deemed necessary or proper;

(e) to classify teachers and to grant and cancel teachers' licenses;

(f) to divide the province into districts, and to appoint the commissioners for each district, and to determine the place of meeting of the district boards;

(g) to make alterations in the boundaries of any district, and to consolidate two or more districts;

(h) to fix the time of the annual meeting of each district board, and to call special meetings of any board when deemed necessary;

(i) to determine all cases of appeal from the decisions of district boards and trustees, and make such orders thereon as are deemed just;

(j) to regulate the time in session, holidays and vacations, of all public schools;

(k) to prescribe the form of school registers for all public schools;

(1) to prescribe text books, courses of study, and apparatus for all public schools, proper books for school libraries, and plans for school houses;