No. 250/1937:

TOWN OF GALWAY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE (SPECIAL PROVISION) (GAELTACHT) ORDER, 1937.

TOWN OF GALWAY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE (SPECIAL PROVISION) (GAELTACHT) ORDER, 1937.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 103 of the Vocational Education Act, 1930 (No. 29 of 1930), that where a vocational education area or part of a vocational education area is included in the Gaeltacht and the Minister for Education is of opinion that, having regard to the conditions in such area or such part, it is essential that special provision should be made in relation to continuation education or technical education in such area or such part, he may make an order requiring the vocational education committee for such area to make such special provision in relation to continuation education or technical education in such area or such part as may be specified in such order, and it shall be the duty of such committee to comply with the terms of such order :

AND WHEREAS the vocational education area of the Town of Galway Vocational Education Committee is, by virtue of the Vocational Education (Gaeltacht) Order, 1933 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 85 of 1933), included in the Gaeltacht and the Minister for Education is of opinion that, having regard to the conditions in such vocational education area, it is essential that special provision should be made in relation to continuation education and technical education in such vocational education area :

NOW, THEREFORE, I, TOMÁS O DEIRG, Minister for Education, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (1) of Section 103 of the Vocational Education Act, 1930 (No. 29 of 1930), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Town of Galway Vocational Education Committee (Special Provision) (Gaeltacht) Order, 1937.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it apples to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. In this Order—

the expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Education ;

the expression " the Committee " means the Town of Galway Vocational Education Committee ;

the expression " the Gaeltacht area " means the portion of the administrative county of Galway specified as the Urban District of Galway in the Schedule to the Vocational Education (Gaeltacht) Order, 1933 (Statutory Rules and Orders No. 85 of 1933).

4.—(1) The Committee shall make the following special provision in relation to continuation education and technical education in the Gaeltacht area, that is to say :—

(a) the Committee shall arrange for the permanent supply of courses of instruction in such subjects as, having regard to the special circumstances of the Gaeltacht area, may be required ;

(b) the Committee shall for the purposes of such courses employ a staff of duly qualified teachers and provide sufficient and suitable accommodation and equipment, and

(c) the Committee shall make such courses of instruction available for a limited number of selected persons outside its area who reside in an area, the whole or part of which by virtue of the Vocational Education (Gaeltacht) Order, 1933, is included in the Gaeltacht, on such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Minister.

(2) Expenditure under this paragraph shall be included in every Annual Scheme of the Committee, and, if and when such Scheme is approved by the Minister, shall be met as part of the expenditure in respect of such annual scheme.

5. The Minister may from time to time require the Committee to make special provision in relation to all or any of the following matters, that is to say :—

(a) the employment of specialists to teach subjects the teaching of which requires expert knowledge or skill not possessed by the staff of the Committee ;

(b) the provision of instruction in any special subject which in the opinion of the Minister is for the time being required ;

(c) the establishment of scholarships ;

(d) such other matters in relation to the area as the Minister may from time to time appoint,

and the Committee shall comply with any such requisition.

6. Nothing in this Order shall be construed as affecting the duty of the Committee to make, in the exercise of its general powers in relation to continuation education and technical education, such provision throughout its vocational education area as, having regard to the moneys available for the Committee under sections 43 and 53 of the Vocational Education Act, 1930 (No. 29 of 1930), the Minister may from time to time consider satisfactory.

Given under my Seal of Office this 24th day of September, 1937.

TOMÁS Ó DEIRG,

Minister for Education.