§ Viscount DALRYMPLEasked the Secretary for Scotland, as a member of the Board of Education for Scotland, whether a school board has the power to appoint its own medical inspector under Section 4 of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1908, without the risk of having any day school fee or other grant reduced, because the Department do not fall in with the board's appointment, the board being willing to pay the expenses of its own medical inspector, without claiming a medical grant under Section 17 (6) of the said Act?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe answer is in the negative. If any provision for medical inspection which a school board may propose to make under Section 4 of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1908, appears to the Department to be inadequate, it will be the duty of the Department to consider whether they ought to issue a Requisition in terms of Article 31 of the Day School Code.