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Contents of schemes.
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4.—The following provisions shall apply and have effect in relation to every scheme submitted to and approved of by the Minister under this Act, that is to say:—
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(a) the scheme shall provide for the award by the corporation or council by which the scheme was prepared of scholarships for the purpose of assisting the recipients thereof to attend or continue to attend an approved school;
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(b) the scholarships shall be awarded only to persons whose parents or guardians are, on the date specified in that behalf in the scheme, bona fide resident in the functional area of the said corporation or council;
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(c) for the purpose of limiting the receipt of scholarships persons who need them, the scheme shall prescribe, in respect of the parents or guardians of the persons to whom scholarships may be awarded, maximum limits of such matters (including, where thought fit, income or valuation of house, farm, or other place of residence or both such income and such valuation) as may be appropriate for the said purpose, and different such provisions may be prescribed in respect of different scholarships;
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(d) for the purpose mentioned in the foregoing paragraph of this section, the scheme, when prescribing maximum limits under that paragraph in respect of a scholarship, may provide for the award of such scholarship with a reduction of the amount thereof where those limits are exceeded by not more than a specified amount;
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(e) the scheme shall reserve to the said corporation or council power, with the approval of the Minister, to award in special circumstances the whole or part of a scholarship to a person who does not comply with the provisions prescribed under paragraph (c) of this section in respect of such scholarship;
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(f) no scholarship shall be awarded to any person who is not within the age limits prescribed by the Minister and applicable to that scholarship;
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(g) the scholarships shall be awarded only to persons who pass the examination tests prescribed by the Minister in respect thereof and (subject to such (if any) provisions as may be contained in the scheme) shall be awarded amongst those persons in accordance with the order of merit shown by the answering at such examination tests;
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(h) the scheme may provide, in respect of any scholarship thereunder, that such scholarship, in lieu of being paid to the parent or guardian of the person to whom it is awarded, shall be applied (in whole or in part) by the said corporation or council in or towards the payment of the fees and the personal expenses of such person at an approved school or the payment of such fees only or of such personal expenses only;
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(i) the scheme shall prescribe the amounts of the several scholarships provided for by the scheme and the number or total amounts of such scholarships, the conditions to be observed for receiving the several scholarships and, in the case of continuing scholarships, the amounts and times of payment of the several sums comprised in the scholarship and the conditions to be observed for receiving each of such sums;
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(j) the scheme may contain such other provisions (not inconsistent with this Act) in relation to the scholarships provided for by it as may be necessary or expedient.
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