Endowed Schools (Masters) Act 1908
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Endowed Schools (Masters) Act, 1908,
(8 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 39.
An Act to make provision with respect to the tenure of office of Masters of Endowed Schools.
[1st August 1908]
Be 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:
1 Tenure of office of masters of endowed schools.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any scheme made with reference to an endowed school, any master in the school, by whomsoever appointed, and whether appointed before or after the passing of this Act, shall be deemed to be in the employment of the governing body for the time being of the school.
(2) It is hereby declared that, notwithstanding anything in section twenty-two of the Endowed Schools Act, 1869 , any provision in any scheme, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, providing for notice being given to a master before he is dismissed from office, shall have full effect.
(3) Subject to any special provisions as to notice contained in any scheme relating to an endowed school, and subject to any special agreement as to notice, the dismissal of a master in an endowed school, whether appointed before or after the passing of this Act, shall not take effect except at the end of a school term, and except after at least two months' notice of dismissal has been given to him by or on behalf of the govern body of the school.
(4) Nothing in this Act or in any scheme, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, shall prevent the dismissal of a master without notice for misconduct or other good and urgent cause.
2 Saving for effect of judgments of court.
2. Nothing in this Act shall prejudice the operation or enforcement of any judgment or order of any court of competent jurisdiction pronounced or made before the first day of August nineteen hundred and eight, as between the parties to the proceedings in which the judgment was pronounced or the order made, and any appeal from any such judgment or order shall be decided as if this Act had not passed.
3 Definitions.
3. In this Act—
The expression ‘endowed school’ means an endowed school within the meaning of section six of the Endowed Schools Act, 1869, and includes any school which would be treated as an endowed school within...
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