§ MR. D. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydfil)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his Department has received a letter from a member of the Aberdare 106 School Board, complaining of an alleged irregularity in convening an extra ordinary meeting of the Board for 6th July, at which a resolution passed at a previous meeting was rescinded; and whether he is aware that the meeting was informally summoned; if so, what remedy the complainant has?
§ MR. ACLANDA letter has been received by the Department from a member of the Aberdare school Board complaining that an extraordinary meeting of the Board had been summoned on the 27th June last, without due notice. The Education Act of 1870 provides (schedule III., 1c) that an extraordinary meeting may be held at any time on the written requisition of three members of the Board addressed to the Clerk of the Board. The Department is not empowered to decide whether a meeting of a school Board has been properly summoned. As no remedy is provided in the Act, the complainant would have to have recourse to legal proceedings in order to contest the validity of the proceedings of the Board.