Vocational Education Act, 1930

Technical education.

4.—(1) For the purposes of this Act the expression “technical education” means education pertaining to trades, manufactures, commerce, and other industrial pursuits (including the occupations of girls and women connected with the household) and in subjects bearing thereon or relating thereto and includes education in science and art (including, in the county boroughs of Dublin and Cork, music) and also includes physical training.

(2) The Minister may from time to time by order declare that the expression “technical education” shall for the purposes of this Act include instruction in such subjects connected with such pursuits, employments and occupations (other than agriculture) as may be specified in such order and whenever any such order is made the meaning of the said expression shall for the purposes of this Act be extended in conformity with the provisions of such order.

(3) The Minister may from time to time, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, by order declare that the expression “technical education” shall for the purposes of this Act also include instruction in such subjects bearing on or relating to agriculture as may be specified in such order and whenever any such order is made the meaning of the said expression shall for the purposes of this Act be extended in conformity with the provisions of such order.