§ Where an education authority or any other governing body provide and maintain an intermediate or secondary school, not conducted for profit, which is recognised by the Department, and is attended by children whose parents are resident outwith the education area in which the school is situated, there shall be paid in each year to that authority or to that governing body, as the case may be out of the education fund of 186 each education area in which any such parents are so resident, a sum equal to the cost of the education of such children (including in such cost repayment of and interest on loans for capital expenditure) after deduction, (a) in the case of a school maintained by an education authority, of income from all sources of income other than education rate, and (b) in the case of a school maintained by any other governing body, of income from grants made by the Department and from fees:
§ Provided that no payment shall be made under this Section out of the education fund of any education area in respect of any child for whom it is shown to the satisfaction of the Department that accessible accommodation is available in a suitable intermediate or secondary school provided within that area, regard being had to all the circumstances, including that religious belief of his parents.
§ Mr. MUNROI beg to move, to leave out the words "an intermediate or secondary" ["maintain an intermediate or secondary school"], and to insert instead thereof the word "A."
There really seems, on consideration, to be no particular reason why the principle of this Clause, which provides for payments by the education authority in one district in respect of the cost of the the education of children at schools in another district should be confined to the case of intermediate and secondary schools. By Clause 15, Sub-section (12), it is already extended to the case of continuation classes. There remains, therefore, only the case of primary schools or departments of schools to be considered. I suggest that the Amendment is a reasonable one.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendment made: Leave out the words "intermediate or secondary" ["is available in a suitable intermediate or secondary school."].—Mr. Munro.