Vocational Education Act, 1930

Vocational education fund.

48.—(1) Every vocational education committee shall establish and maintain in the hands of the treasurer of such committee a fund to be known and in this Act referred to as the vocational education fund of such committee.

(2) All sums received by a vocational education committee under this Act from any source shall be paid to the treasurer of such committee and, save as is hereinafter otherwise provided, the receipt alone of such treasurer shall be a good discharge to the person paying the same, and all such sums shall be paid by such treasurer into the vocational education fund of such committee.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-section of this section, the receipt of an officer of a vocational education committee duly authorised by such committee to receive payments of a particular class shall be a good discharge to a person making a payment of such class to such officer, but it shall be the duty of such officer forthwith to pay the amount of such payment to the treasurer of such committee.

(4) No payments shall be made out of the vocational education fund of a vocational education committee except by the treasurer of such committee on the direction in writing of such committee, and every payment so directed shall be made out of such fund by such treasurer and every such direction by such committee to such treasurer shall be a sufficient authority to such treasurer to make the payments thereby directed to be made to the person or persons mentioned therein.

(5) A vocational education committee may authorise payments out of the vocational education fund maintained by it to be made for all or any of the following purposes, and for no other purpose whatsoever, that is to say:—

(a) to defray expenditure incurred by such committee under and in accordance with an annual scheme prepared by it and approved by the Minister; or

(b) to defray administrative and incidental expenses incurred for the purposes of this Act by such committee with the previous consent, either general or special, of the Minister; or

(c) to defray any other expenditure required or authorised by this Act to be incurred by such committee.

(6) The Minister may from time to time authorise a vocational education committee to incur, in any local financial year, administrative and incidental expenses up to but not exceeding an amount specified by the Minister in such authority, and every such authority shall for the purposes of this section operate as a general previous consent to all administrative and incidental expenses incurred by such committee in such year up to the amount so specified.