School Attendance Act, 1926
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Officers of school attendance committees. |
11.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section every school attendance committee for a school attendance area in any of the county boroughs and urban districts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act may, subject to the approval of the council of the county borough or urban district and the sanction of the Minister, appoint and remove such officers as it thinks proper and subject to the sanction and approval aforesaid may fix and pay the remuneration of such officers. | |
(2) For the purposes of Part IV . of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925) (which relates to the superannuation of the officers of a local body), every school attendance committee shall be deemed to be a committee of a local authority and to be a local body within the meaning of the said Part IV. of the said Act, and the provisions of the said Part IV. shall in so far as the same are applicable apply to a school attendance committee and their officers in like manner as they apply to a committee of a local authority and their officers subject to the following modifications, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the grant by a school attendance committee of any allowance or gratuity shall be subject to the approval of the council of the county borough or urban district by which the expenses of such school attendance committee are defrayed; and | ||
(b) in the case of an officer of a school attendance committee appointed under the Irish Education Act, 1892, who becomes an officer of a school attendance committee under this Act, such officer's service under the former committee shall be reckoned as service under the latter committee. | ||
(3) The Minister may at any time at his discretion remove any officer of any such school attendance committee as aforesaid. | ||
(4) Every person who immediately before the commencement of this Act is an officer of a school attendance committee appointed under the Irish Education Act, 1892, for a school attendance area situate in a county borough or urban district mentioned in the Schedule to this Act shall immediately upon the commencement of this Act become and be an officer of the school attendance committee under this Act for that school attendance area as if he had been appointed under this section by the last-mentioned committee. | ||
(5) No person shall be appointed by a school attendance committee to be an officer of such committee unless he possesses such qualifications as shall be prescribed by the Minister for Education, after consultation with the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, as the necessary qualifications for such officer of such committee. |