DR. MACNAMAEATo ask the Secretary to the Board of Education, whether, having regard to the fact that Clause 18, sub-Section (8), of the Education Bill transfer the powers of the joint education committees under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889, to the education committees under the Education Bill, and to the fact that the Intermediate Education Act, which is not repealed, provides in Section 6, sub-Section (1), that the proceedings of education committees under it need not be submitted to the County Council for approval, it will be competent in future for any education committee in Wales acting under the Education Bill to transact any of its proceedings without duly reporting those proceedings to the education authority on behalf of which it is acting; and, if so, whether he will consider the desirableness of repealing that part of the Act of 1889 which would enable such a course to be adopted.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) Clause 18, sub-Section (8), of the Education Bill does not transfer the powers of the joint education committees to the education committees under the Bill. The powers transferred are not the powers of the joint education committees, but those of the county governing bodies; and these are not transferred to the education committees, but to the new local education authorities.