Education (Administrative Provisions) Act 1907

Year1907


Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907

(7 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 43.

An Act to make provision for the better administration by the Central and Local Authorities in England and Wales of the enactments relating to Education.

[28th August 1907]

B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Purchase and appropriation of land.

1 Purchase and appropriation of land.

(1) A local education authority shall have the same power, exerciseable in the same manner, and subject to the same provisions, for the purchase of land either compulsorily or by agreement for the purposes of Part II. of the Education Act, 1902 , as they have under the Education Acts for the purposes of Part III. of that Act, but the powers given by this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers for the purpose possessed by the authority.

(2) A local education authority may—

(i) appropriate, with the consent of the Board of Education, for the purpose of Part II. of the Education Act, 1902, any land acquired by them for the purposes of Part III. of the Education Act, 1902, or taken over by them under that Act as successors of a school board; and

(ii) appropriate, with the consent of the Board of Education, for the purposes of Part III. of the Education Act, 1902, any land acquired by them for the purpose of Part II. of the Education Act, 1902, either under that Act, or for similar purposes under any Act repealed by that Act; and

(iii) appropriate, with the consent of and after inquiry by the Local Government Board, for any of the purposes of the Education Acts, any land acquired by them otherwise than in their capacity as local education authority:

(3) The council of a non-county borough or urban district may appropriate, with the consent of and after inquiry by the Local Government Board, for the purpose of their power to supply or aid the supply of education other than elementary, any land acquired by them under any other power.

(4) The appropriation of land by a local education authority or a council under this section shall be subject in any case to any special covenants or agreements affecting the use of the land in their hands.

(5) Where the capital expenditure in connection with any land appropriated under this section or any loan for the purpose of repaying that expenditure or any part of that expenditure or loan has been or is charged on, or raised within, any special part of the area of the local education authority or council, and the Board of Education, or, in the case of land appropriated under this section and not acquired for any of the purposes of the Education Acts, the Local Government Board, are of opinion that the use of the land for the purposes for which it is appropriated will alter the area benefited by the expenditure, the Board of Education, or the Local Government Board, as the case requires, shall order such equitable adjustment in respect thereof to be made as they think right under the circumstances, and the local education authority or council shall comply with any order so made.

(6) A council shall have power, with the consent of and after inquiry by the Board of Education, to alienate any land acquired or held by them for the purposes of education other than elementary under Part II. of the Education Act, 1902, and, in the case of the sale of any such land, the proceeds of sale shall be applied in such manner as the Local Government Board sanction, towards the discharge of any loan of the council under the Education Acts, or otherwise for any purpose for which capital may be applied by the council under those Acts.

S-2 Substitution, in certain cases, of consent of Board of Education for consent of Home Secretary.

2 Substitution, in certain cases, of consent of Board of Education for consent of Home Secretary.

2. The consent of the Board of Education shall be substituted for the consent of the Secretary of State for the Home Department in cases where the consent of the said Secretary of State is required under section fourteen of the School Sites Act, 1841, and section one of the School Grants Act, 1855 (which relate to sales, exchange, or mortgages of school premises).

S-3 Extension of period for repayment of money borrowed by county council.

3 Extension of period for repayment of money borrowed by county council.

3. In the application of section sixty-nine of the Local Government Act, 1888, to money borrowed after the passing of this Act under the Education Acts by the council of a county, a period not exceeding sixty years shall be substituted for a period not exceeding thirty years as the maximum period within which borrowed money is to be repaid, and any money reborrowed for the purpose of discharging a loan raised for the purposes of the Education Acts may, if the Local Government Boardapprove, and subject to such conditions as they impose, be repaid within such period, not exceeding sixty years from the date of the original loan, as the Local Government Board fix.

S-4 Power of county council to contribute towards capital expenditure incurred by non-county boroughs or urban districts within their county for the purposes of higher education.

4 Power of county council to contribute towards capital expenditure incurred by non-county boroughs or urban districts within their county for the purposes of higher education.

(1) In the exercise of their powers and duties under section two of the Education Act, 1902, a county council shall have power, and at all times since the commencement of that Act shall be deemed to have had power, to agree with the council of any non-county borough or urban district within their area for the payment to that last-mentioned council of a contribution towards the capital expenditure incurred by them in respect of education other than elementary, to such an amount and in such instalments, and for such period and subject to such conditions, as may be specified in the agreement.

(2) Where any such agreement is made the contribution agreed to be paid by the county council shall, for the purposes of section nineteen of the Education Act, 1902, form part of the security on which money may be borrowed by the council of the non-county borough or urban district under that section.

S-5 Decision of questions as to capital expenditure.

5 Decision of questions as to capital expenditure.

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