Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act, 1878

Rules to be made by Board.

6. The Board shall from time to time, with the approval of the Lord Lieutenant, make rules for the purposes of this Act with respect to the following matters:

(1.) For prescribing the duties and powers of the assistant commissioners and other officers:

(2.) For appointing times and places at which examinations shall be held in each year:

(3.) For defining the qualifications of the students who may present themselves for examination:

(4.) For applying, as far as conveniently may be, the benefits of this Act to the education of girls:

(5.) For defining the subjects and nature of the examinations:

(6.) For requiring candidates for examination to give such notice as the Board may prescribe of their intention to present themselves for examination, and for fixing the fees to be paid by candidates upon such notices:

(7.) For fixing the numbers and amounts of the prizes and exhibitions which may be awarded in each year, and for declaring the conditions with respect to age, attendance at school, attendance at the examinations to be held under this Act, and the standard of merit, and conditions with respect to such other matters as the Board may prescribe, upon compliance with which such prizes, exhibitions, and certificates may be obtained and held. No candidate shall be allowed to obtain a pass, nor be awarded any exhibition prize or certificate at any examination under this Act, unless he satisfies the examiners that he possesses an adequate knowledge of one at least of the first second third or fifth divisions of the subjects mentioned in the schedule to this Act:

(8.) For prescribing and satisfying themselves as to the observance of the conditions upon which managers of schools may receive payment of result fees:

(9.) For making proper provisions to carry out the rules in the schedule to this Act, and for varying altering and amending the rules contained in such schedule:

(10.) Generally for carrying this Act into effect.

All rules made in pursuance of this Act shall, within three weeks after the same shall have been made, be laid before both Houses of Parliament, if Parliament be sitting, or if not, then within three weeks after the beginning of the next ensuing session of Parliament; and if any such rules shall be disapproved by either House of Parliament within forty days after the same shall have been so laid before Parliament, such rules, or such part thereof as shall be so disapproved, shall thereupon become void and of no effect.

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