Vocational Education Act, 1930

Payment of travelling expenses to members of certain committees.

22.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, every vocational education committee for a county vocational education area shall, as soon as may be after the 30th day of June in each year, pay to every member of such committee or of any sub-committee thereof such contribution (if any) as is authorised by the rules contained in the Second Schedule to this Act towards the expenses incurred during such preceding twelve months by such member in attending the meetings of such committee (if he is a member thereof) or of any sub-committee thereof of which he is a member.

(2) No contribution shall be payable under this section in respect of any period of twelve months ending on the 30th day of June in any year to a member of a vocational education committee in respect of his attendance at meetings of such committee held during such period unless he has attended at least five such meetings.

(3) No contribution shall be payable under this section in respect of any period of twelve months ending on the 30th day of June in any year to a member of a sub-committee appointed by a vocational education committee in respect of his attendances at meetings of such sub-committee held during such period unless the Minister, on the application of such committee, authorises contributions to be paid under this section to members of such sub-committee.

(4) For the purposes of this section the period commencing on the day appointed under this Act for the holding of the first meeting of a vocational education committee and ending on the 30th day of June, 1931, shall be deemed to be a period of twelve months.

(5) Any person who knowingly makes or allows to be made a false statement for the purpose of obtaining the payment to himself or another of a sum under or in pursuance of this section, shall be guilty of an offence under this section, and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding one year.

(6) Any person who is convicted of an offence under this section shall thereafter be disqualified from being elected or being a member of any vocational education committee or a sub-committee thereof, or of any council, body, or committee which is a local authority within the meaning of the Act of 1925, and shall also be disqualified from holding any office or employment under any vocational education committee or any such council, body, or committees as aforesaid.