Vocational Education Act, 1930

Effect of amalgamation order.

101.—Whenever an amalgamation order is made by the Minister under this Part of this Act the urban district to which such order relates shall, on the commencement of such order, cease to be a scheduled urban district within the meaning of this Act, and thenceforth this Act shall have effect in such urban district and in the county containing such urban district as if such urban district were not mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, and for that purpose the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) on the commencement of such order the urban district vocational education area (in this section referred to as the urban area) which was co-terminous with the said urban district shall become and be amalgamated with and added to the county vocational education area (in this section referred to as the county area) which was theretofore included in the county containing such urban district;

(b) the vocational education committee for the urban area shall, on the commencement of such order, be dissolved;

(c) the council of the said urban district shall, before the commencement of such order, elect two persons or, where the county area contains at the time of such election four or more urban districts, one person to be members or a member of the vocational education committee for the county area;

(d) a member of the vocational education committee for the county area elected under the foregoing paragraph shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, hold office as such member until the commencement of the next following triennial meeting of such committee;

(e) where before the commencement of such order the county area contains four urban districts, one of the two members of the vocational education committee for such area elected by the respective councils of such urban districts shall on the commencement of such order cease to be a member of such committee and each such council shall before the commencement of such order determine which of the two members of such committee elected by it shall so cease to be a member of such committee and on the failure of any such council to make such determination such determination shall be made by the Minister as soon as may be after the commencement of such order;

(f) the vocational education committee for the county area shall, when preparing its annual scheme for the year commencing at the commencement of such order, consult with the vocational education committee for the urban area.