§ SIR FREDERICK BANBURY (City of London)To ask the President of the Board of Education whether the Board of Education will, under Article 15 of the Code, decline to rocognise a teacher who enters into an agreement with a local authority to give religions instruction as part of the staff of a school or of a department of a school.
§ SIR. FREDERICK BANBURYTo ask the President of the Board of Education whether a requirement to give religious instruction is a duty connected with the work of a public elementary school within the meaning of Article 15 of the Code.
§ SIR. FREDERICK BANBURYTo ask the President of the Board of Education whether a requirement to give religious instruction embodied in an agreement between a teacher and a local education authority will fall under Article 15 of the Code.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) I must remind the hon. Baronet that articles in the Code may be modified if it should seem expedient or necessary, in view of any particular provisions in the Law which differ from those which the present Code may have designed to meet. Hence I cannot, at this stage, undertake to say in what way any article in the present Code will operate under any new conditions that may be brought about by the new Bill.