§ MR. HENRY HOBHOUSE (Somersetshire, E.)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education, if in the case of a proposed transfer of a voluntary school to the new education authority, it is the duty of that authority, or of the persons proposing to transfer the school, to give the public notice required by Section 8 of the Education Act of last year.
§ (Answered by Sir William Anson.) The Board are advised that the duty of giving the statutory notice of the provision of a new school required by Section 8 of the Education Act falls in every case upon the person or body proposing to provide the school. As the transfer of a school to the local education authority is to be treated as the provision of a new school the duty would, in the case of such a transfer, fall on the local education authority. The Board are further advised that the statutory notice required by Section 8 of the Act cannot be given until the Act is in operation, i.e., until after the appointed day.