23 Education

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CHAPTER 23.

EDUCATION.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

1. SHORT TITLE.

2. INTERPRETATION.

   PART I.

   CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION.

3. APPOINTMENT OF MINISTER.

4. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MINISTER.

5. POWERS OF THE MINISTER.

6. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

7. DUTIES OF PERMANENT SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR.

8. ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTRAL ADVISORY COUNCIL.

9. DUTIES OF COUNCIL.

10. MEETINGS OF COUNCIL.

11. ANNUAL REPORT.

    PART II.

    THE STATUTORY SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.

12. STAGES AND PURPOSE OF STATUTORY SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.

    Provision and Maintenance of Primary and Secondary Schools.

13. DUTY OF MINISTER TO SECURE PROVISION OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

14. POWERS OF MINISTER TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, OR ASSIST PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

    Management of Primary Schools and Government of Secondary Schools.

15. SCHOOL COMMITTEES OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

16. GOVERNING BODY OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

17. GOVERNMENT OF GOVERNMENT HIGH SCHOOL.

    Secular Instruction and Appointment and Dismissal of Teachers in Maintained and Assisted Schools.

18. SECULAR INSTRUCTION IN MAINTAINED AND ASSISTED SCHOOLS.

19. PENSIONS OF TEACHERS.

20. CONTRACTS, ETC., OF BOARD OF EDUCATION.

    Religious Education in Maintained Schools.

21. GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN MAINTAINED SCHOOLS.

22. SPECIAL PROVISIONS AS TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN MAINTAINED SCHOOLS.

23. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS OTHER THAN MAINTAINED SCHOOLS.

    Primary and Secondary Education of pupils requiring Special Educational Treatment.

24. EDUCATION OF PUPILS REQUIRING SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL TREATMENT.

25. MINISTER TO ASCERTAIN WHAT CHILDREN REQUIRE SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL TREATMENT.

    Compulsory Attendance at Primary and Secondary Schools.

26. COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE.

27. DUTY OF PARENTS TO SECURE THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN.

28. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ORDERS.

29. DUTY OF PARENTS TO SECURE REGULAR ATTENDANCE OF REGISTERED PUPILS.

30. PENALTIES FOR OFFENCES UNDER SECTIONS 28 AND 29.

    Further Education.

31. GENERAL DUTIES OF MINISTER IN RESPECT OF FURTHER EDUCATION.

32. POWER OF MINISTER TO ESTABLISH CENTRES FOR FURTHER EDUCATION.

    Supplementary Provisions as to Primary, Secondary and Further Education.

33. MEDICAL INSPECTION AND TREATMENT OF PUPILS.

34. PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING.

35. POWER TO ENSURE CLEANLINESS.

36. PROVISION OF TRANSPORT.

37. POWER TO PROVIDE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION OTHERWISE THAN AT SCHOOL.

38. DUTY OF MINISTER IN RESPECT OF PUPILS INCAPABLE OF RECEIVING EDUCATION AT SCHOOL.

    Employment of Children.

39. POWER OF MINISTER TO PROHIBIT OR RESTRICT EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.

    Miscellaneous Provisions.

40. PROHIBITION OF FEES IN SCHOOLS MAINTAINED BY THE MINISTER.

41. DUTIES OF MINISTER AS TO THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

    PART Il.

    INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS.

42. REGISTRATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS.

43. COMPLAINTS.

44. DETERMINATION OF COMPLAINTS.

45. ENFORCEMENT.

46. REMOVAL OF DISQUALIFICATIONS.

47. RIGHTS OF REGISTERED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS.

48. RETuRps.

    [CH.23. 471PART IV.

    GENERAL.

    General Principle to be observed by the Minister.

49. PUPILS TO BE EDUCATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WISHES OF THEIR PARENTS.

    Miscellaneous Provisions.

50. INSPECTION.

51. PROVISION OF CERTAIN MEDICAL SERVICES FOR PUPILS NOT IN ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOLS MAINTAINED BY THE MINISTER.

52. REGISTRATION OF PUPILS AT SCHOOLS.

53. POWER OF MINISTER TO GIVE ASSISTANCE BY MEANS OF SCHOLARSHIPS OR OTHERWISE.

54. POWER OF MINISTER TO GIVE ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOLS NOT MAINTAINED BY HIM.

55. NOTICES.

56. SAVING AS TO PERSONS OF UNSOUND MIND AND PERSONS DETAINED BY ORDER OF A COURT.

57. POWER OF MINISTER TO MAKE REGULATIONS.

58. POWER TO AMEND FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD SCHEDULES.

59. EXPENSES.

    SCHEDULES.

    FIRST SCHEDULE-MANAGEMENT OF MAINTAINED PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

    SECOND SCHEDULE--GOVERNMENT OF MAINTAINED SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

    THIRD SCHEDULE-GOVERNMENT OF GOVERNMENT HIGH SCHOOL.

    FOURTH SCHEDULE-EXEMPT SCHOOLS.

    CHAPTER 23.

    EDUCATION.

    AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAW 15of 1962.

    26 of 1963.

    RELATING TO EDUCATION WITHIN THE BAHAMA 57 of 1963.

    ISLANDS.

    [23rd May 1962.] [Commencement 1st September 1962.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Education Act. Short title.

2. -(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise Interpretation.

   requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:'alterations' in relation to any school premises, includes any improvements or enlargements which do not amount to the establishment of a new school;

   'assist' in relation to any school or institution has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of this section;

   'child' means a person who is not over compulsory school age;

   'certificated teacher' means a teacher who is classified by the Minister as fully qualified academically and professionally and is the holder of a certificate issued by the Minister in that behalf;

   'compulsory school age' has the meaning assigned to it by section 26 of this Act;

   'contract service' means employment under the Board of Education prior to the appointment of a Minister under this Act or in the public service of the Colony for a fixed period of time whether or not such employment is renewable on the expiration of such fixed period of time;

   'Council' means the Central Advisory Council for Education established under section 8 of this Act;

   'Department' means the Department of Education established under section 6 of this Act;

   'Director' means the Director of Education referred to in section 6 of this Act;

   'exempt school' means a school referred to in the Fourth Schedule to this Act;

   'further education' has the meaning assigned to it by section 31 of this Act;

   'independent school' means any school at which full-time education is provided for five or more pupils of compulsory school age (whether or not such education is also provided for pupils under or over that age), not being a school maintained by the Minister;

   'junior pupil' means a child who has not attained the age of twelve years;

   'maintain' in relation to any school or other educational establishment has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of this section;

   'medical inspection' means inspection by or under the direction of a medical officer employed or engaged, whether regularly or for the purpose of a particular case, by the Minister or the 57 of 1963, Minister for Health;

   s. 17.

   'medical officer' means a duly qualified medical practitioner employed or engaged, whether regularly or for the purposes of any particular case, by the Minister or the Minister for Health;

   'medical treatment' includes treatment by any duly qualified medical practitioner;

   57 of 1963, 'Minister' means the Minister appointed under s. 17. section 3;

   'parent', in relation to any child or young person, includes a guardian and every person who has the actual custody of a child or young person;

   'premises', in relation to any school, includes any detached playing fields, but, except where otherwise expressly provided, does not include a teacher's dwelling house;

   'primary education' has the meaning assigned to it by section 13 of this Act;

   'primary school' means, subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, a school for providing primary education;

   S7 of 1963, 'proprietor', in relation to any school, means the person or body of persons responsible for the management of the school, and for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to applications for the registration of independent schools, includes any person or body of persons proposing to be so responsible;

   'pupil', where used without qualifibation, means a person of any age for whom education is required to be provided under this Act;

   'registered pupil' means, in relation to any school, a pupil registered as such in the register kept in accordance with the requirements of this Act, but does not include any child who has been withdrawn from school in the prescribed manner;

   'registered school' means an independent school registered in the register of independent schools, whereof the registration is final;

   'regulations' means regulations made by the Minister under the provisions of this Act;

   'school' means an institution for providing primary or secondary education or both primary and secondary education being a school maintained by the Minister or an independent school, and the expression 'school' where used without qualification shall include any such school or all such schools as the context may require;

   'school year' shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 11 of this Act;

   'secondary education' has the meaning assigned to it by section 13 of this Act;

   'secondary school' means, subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, a school for providing secondary education;

   'senior pupil' means a person who has attained the age of twelve years but has not attained the age of nineteen years;

   'special educational treatment' has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) (c) of section 13 of this Act;

   'special school' means a school, set aside for that purpose, wherein special educational treatment is provided for pupils suffering from any disability of mind or body;

   57 of 1963, s. 17.

   26 of 1963, s. 3.

   'statutory educational system' means the educational system established, maintained or operated by the Minister under the provisions of this Act;

   6'young person' means a person over compulsory school age who has not attained the age of nineteen years.

   (2) For the purposes of this Act(a) the duty of the Minister to maintain a school or other educational establishment shall include the duty of defraying all the expenses of maintaining the school or other educational establishment;

   (b) where the Minister makes to the proprietor of any school or other educational establishment which is not maintained by the Minister, any grant in respect of the school or other educational establishment, or any payment in consideration of the provision of educational facilities thereat, the school or other educational establishment shall be deemed to be assisted by the Minister.

   (3) So long as any school...