§ House in Committee (according to Order).
§ Bill reported, without Amendment.
§ On the Motion of the Lord PRESIDENT, Amendment made, postponing the date at which the Act should come into operation.
§ Clause 1, page 1, line 6, before ("all powers") insert ("On and after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four"); and consequential Amendments made in subsequent clauses.
§ After Clause 7, insert the following clauses:—
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Clause (A).
Notwithstanding the seventeenth section of the Endowed Schools Act, 1873, any scheme which has before the passing of this Act been submitted by the Endowed Schools Commissioners to the Committee of Council on Education for approval may be proceeded with.
Provided, that with respect to every such scheme which has not been approved by the Committee of Council on Education before the
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passing of this Act, such Committee shall before approving the same cause such scheme, after the passing of this Act, and that notwithstanding any prior publication and notice, to be published and circulated in such manner as they think sufficient for giving information to all persons interested, together with a notice stating that during one month after the publication of such notice the Committee of Council on Education will receive any objections or suggestions made to them in writing respecting such scheme.
Clause (B) (Definitions).
In this Act, so far as is consistent with the context, the expressions following have the meanings hereafter assigned to them; that is to say,
The expression 'The Endowed Schools Acts' moans the Endowed Schools Acts, 1809 and 1873:
The expression 'The Endowed Schools Commissioners' means the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of the Endowed Schools Act, 1869:
The expression 'The Charity Commissioners' means the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales.
Clause 8, page 3, line 19, after the first ("this Act") insert—
(" and in the construction of the Endowed Schools Acts the expression 'the Commissioners' shall, unless there is something in the context inconsistent therewith, on and after the said thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, mean the Charity Commissioners ").
Leave out the Schedule and insert the following Schedule:—
Acts partly repealed on and after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four:—The first paragraph of section fifty two, and the whole of sections thirty-one, forty-eight, and fifty-nine, of The Endowed Schools Act, 1869; section seventeen of the Endowed Schools Act, 1873.
Ordered, That the said Bill be read the third time To-morrow.