§ DR. MACNAMARA (Camberwell, N.)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education whether after 1st August, 1904, Article 15 (the Extraneous Duties Clause) of the Education Code for 1904, will be applied to all agreements, whether made before or after that date, in continuance of the practice of the Board of Education with respect to the corresponding clause in the Code of 1903.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) Article 71* of the Code for 1903 applied and still applies (unless the provisions of 714 Article 15 of the Code for 1904 are adopted in its place) to all agreements with teachers in voluntary schools made before 31st July, 1904. Article 15 of the Code for 1904 applies to all appointments of teachers in council as well as voluntary schools made on or after 1st August, 1904, whether such appointments are made by agreement or minute. The Board are advised that a revision of existing agreements would have needed a fresh stamping of each agreement, and this would have caused a considerable expense to fall either upon teachers or managers or local authorities. The Board, therefore, refrained from making the new provisions obligatory, though it is possible for the alteration to be made in any agreement or minute.