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(6.) Where a scliool board lias provided any sncli school, it may dis- 

 continue the school, or change the site thereof, if it satisfies the Scotch 

 Education Department that the school to be discontinued is unnecessary, 

 or that the change of site is expedient. 



VIII. Any two or more school boards may resolve to combine together 

 for the purpose of providing and maintaining a technical school under this 

 Act common to the districts of such school boards, provided that no such 

 resolution shall have any effect unless and until it has been published and 

 confirmed in manner hereinbefore provided ; and if such resolution is 

 confirmed as aforesaid, the same provisions shall have effect as in the case 

 of a resolution to provide a technical school, and if the resolution is 

 carried into effect the expenses of providing or maintaining the school, 

 and the sum necessary to meet any deficiency on the technical school 

 account, shall be paid out of the school funds of the combining school 

 boards in terms of the said resolution. 



IX. The provisions of sections thirty-eight and thirty-niue of the 

 Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, with respect to the transference of 

 schools in pursuance of those sections, shall apply to technical schools now 

 existing, or which may hereafter exist, in the same manner as they now 

 apply to the schools which may presently be transferred in pursuance of 

 those sections. 



X. No scholar shall be admitted to a technical school unless or until 

 he has obtained a certificate under section seventy-three of the Education 

 (Scotland) Act,- 1872, as amended by section seven of the Education 

 (Scotland) Act, 1883, or an examination equivalent thereto. 



XI. A technical school provided and maintained under this Act shall 

 be deemed to be a public school, but attendance thereat shall not be 

 reckoned as attendance for the purpose of any grant from moneys voted 

 by Parliament under the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1883. 



XII. In this Act— 



The expression ' technical school ' means a school or department of a 

 school in which technical instruction is given, and school board shall 

 include combination of school boards. 



The expression ' technical instruction ' means instruction in subjects 

 approved by the Scotch Education Department, and in the branches of 

 science and art with respect to which grants are for the time being made 

 by the Department of Science and Art, or in any other subject which may 

 for the time being be sanctioned by that Department. 



The expression ' prescribed ' means prescribed by the Scotch Educa- 

 tion Department. 



Appendix II. 



' However desirable it might be, it is scarcely possible to frame a 

 ■definition of technical education which can be satisfactory from all points 

 of view ; but without any such comprehensive definition it may be possible 

 to lay down certain outlines of the operations permissible under the Act. 

 Their lordships assume that such instruction may be held to cover not 

 only the general scientific principles which underlie the leading manufac- 

 tures and industries of the kingdom, but also some knowledge of the 

 manner in which these general principles are applied, and some acquaint- 

 ance with the practical conditions under which they are applied in various 

 industries, and in various localities. Besides this general description, they 

 apprehend that the ordinary interpretation of the term covers some 



