§ MR. A. JOHNSTONasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether section 23 of the Elementary Education Act enables a school in union with the National Society to be transferred to a School Board?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, that to the best of his belief, and according to the Legal Advisers of the Government, the section referred to by the hon. Member did confer the power of transfer to a school board of a school in union with the National Society, provided that the conditions required by the section were fulfilled, one of which conditions was that any person interested, including 1504 a body corporate, had the right to be heard by the Education Department against the transfer. He presumed that the National Society came within the scope of that provision.