§ (6) This section shall not apply to any residential institution which is either
- (a) a school for blind, deaf, or defective children, shown to the satisfaction of the Department to be attended mainly by children whose parents or guardians are resident outwith the education area in which the orphanage or school is situated, or
- (b) an orphanage shown to the satisfaction of the Department to be required for the proper education of children destitute of efficient guardianship.
§ (8) In any case where the Department are satisfied, upon representations made to them by the education authority of any education area, or by any church or denominational body acting on behalf of the parents of children belonging to such church or body, and after such inquiry as the Department deem necessary, that a new school is required for the accommodation of children whose parents are resident within that education area, regard being had to the religious belief of such parents, it shall be lawful for the educational authority of that area to pro vide a new school, to be held, maintained, and managed by them subject to the conditions prescribed in Sub-section (2) of this Section, so far as those conditions are applicable; the time set apart for religious instruction in the new school being not less than that so set apart in schools in the same education area which have been transferred under this Section.
§ (9) If at any time after the expiry of ten years from the transfer of a school under this Section, or from the provision of a new school as aforesaid, the education authority by whom the school is maintained are of opinion that the school is no longer required, or that, having regard to the religious belief of the parents of the children attending the school, the conditions prescribed in Sub-section (2) of this Section ought no longer to apply thereto.
§ Lords Amendments: In Sub-section (6, a), after the word "Department" ["satisfaction of the Department"], insert the words "by the person or persons vested with the title of the school."—Agreed to.
§ Leave out the word "mainly," and insert instead thereof the word "largely."—Agreed to.
§ Leave out the words "orphanage or."—Agreed to.
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In paragraph (b), after the word "Department," insert the words
by the person or persons vested with the title of the orphanage.
—Agreed to.
§ In Sub-section (8), leave out "(2)," and insert instead thereof "(3)."—Agreed to.
§ In Sub-section (9), leave out "(2)," and insert instead thereof" (3)."—Agreed to.