§ (Meetings.)
§ 8. An education authority shall meet at such times as the conduct of business may require. There shall be at least one general meeting of every education authority in each month, except in two of the months of July, August, and September.
§ Lords Amendments:
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Leave out the words "except in two of the months of July, August and September," and insert instead thereof the words,
provided that it shall not be necessary to hold more than one such meeting between the end of June and the beginning of October.
—Agreed to.
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Insert as a new paragraph,
14. Local Inquiry.—Section ninety-three of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 (which relates to local inquiry, etc.), shall apply in any case where the Secretary for Scotland is authorised or required by this Act to make any Order or to hold any inquiry: Provided that the costs of any inquiry held in pursuance of the Section of this Act relating to electoral divisions and constitution of authorities shall be deemed to be expenses incident to the first election of the education authority for the education area to which the inquiry relates.
Mr. SPEAKERThis, again, is a privilege Amendment, which would involve expenditure of certain money.
§ Lords Amendment agreed to.