Ο περί Στοιχειώδους Εκπαιδεύσεως Νόμος (ΚΕΦ.166)

3.-(1) The Governor shall be the central authority for all matters relating to elementary education in the Δημοκρατία and, subject to the provisions of this Law, he is hereby charged with the control and supervision and the performance of all duties and the exercise of all powers connected therewith.

4.-(1) The Governor may from time to time delegate to-

(a) the Director,

(b) the Boards of Education,

(c) the Town Committees,

(d) the Village Commissions,

(e) the Committees of Management,

the performance of all or any of the duties and the exercise of all or any of the powers vested in the Governor under this Law.

(2) The Governor may at any time revoke any such delegation.

5.-(1) The Governor may from time to time make Regulations to be published in the Gazette for all or any of the purposes of this Law.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such Regulations may relate to all or any of the following matters, except where specific provision therefor is made in this Law, that is to say-

(a) the ages between which children shall be entitled to attend school or to receive elementary instruction therein free of charge, and the ages between which children shall attend school in a compulsory school attendance area;

(α1) τον καθορισμόν ή τον τρόπον καθορισμού περιφερειών, εν οιαδήποτε πόλει, χωρίω ή συμπλέγματι, εξ ων θα προέρχωνται οι μαθηταί οίτινες θα φοιτώσιν εις έκαστον σχολείον της τοιαύτης πόλεως, χωρίου ή συμπλέγματος~

(b) the attendance of children at school, their expulsion, removal or superannuation therefrom and the transfer of children from one school to another;

(c) the auditing of school accounts;

(d) the books to be used in schools and in school libraries;

(e) the conduct of business at meetings of Boards of Education, Town Committees, Village Commissions and Committees of Management, ως και την άσκησιν περαιτέρω αρμοδιοτήτων και τον τρόπον της τοιαύτης ασκήσεως υπό Εκπαιδευτικών Συμβουλίων, Σχολικών Εφορειών, Χωριτικών Αρχών και Επιτροπών Διαχειρίσεως~

(f) the examination and registration of teachers;

(g) the curriculum, syllabus and courses of instruction to be followed in schools;

(h) the development, erection, extension, improvement, provision, renting or repairing of any school buildings, gardens, playgrounds, premises and yards in any town or village and, in any village, of teachers dwellings;

(i) the duties and powers of school attendance officers, inspectors, assistant inspectors and sub-inspectors of schools;

(j) the duties and powers of teachers;

(k) the discipline to be enforced upon children;

(l) the establishment, management and maintenance of school libraries;

(m) the furniture and equipment of schools;

(n) the grading of schools;

(o) the grants and loans to be made from the Education Funds established under this Law or otherwise;

(p) the health, cleanliness, medical examination and treatment and the nutrition of children attending school;

(q) the holidays and vacations to be kept in schools and by teachers, and the manner of celebrating any holiday;

(r) the inspection, examination, management, supervision and hours of opening and closing of schools;

(s) the nature of information which shall be furnished to teachers or school attendance officers by any person from whom such information may be demanded;

(t) the mode of administering and acounting for any school property by Town Committees, Village Commissions and Committees of Management;

(u) the mode of payment of teachers’ salaries and the times at which they are to be paid;

(v) the qualifications, educational and otherwise, to be possessed by teachers;

(κγ) παν θέμα όπερ δυνάμει των διατάξεων του παρόντος Νόμου χρήζει ή είναι επιδεκτικόν καθορισμού.

(3) The Regulations may provide for the imposition on offenders against the same of penalties not exceeding .25 for each offence, and in case of a continuing offence a further penalty not exceeding .25 for each day during which the offence continues.

6. Καταργήθηκε από το άρθρο 18 του περί Σχολικών Εφορειών Νόμου του 1997, (Ν.108(Ι)/97).

7. Τhe Director shall have power from time to time to issue, and when issued amend, alter or revoke, directions-

(a) prescribing the form of account books, records and registers to be kept by Town Committees, Village Commissions, Committees of Management and teachers;

(b) prescribing the form of returns to be made by Town Committees, Village Commissions, Committees of Management and teachers and the times at which such returns are to be made;

(c) prescribing the form of estimate to be used by Town Committees, Village Commissions and Committees of Management;

(d) authorizing any Town Committee, Village Commission or Committee of Management to utilize any item in the estimates not required for the purposes for which it was provided or any saving thereon for any other purpose specified therein or for the purpose of covering any excess of expenditure in respect of any other item appearing therein;

(e) regulating the sanitation in school building or premises;

(f) regulating the supply or sale to children by Town Committees, Village Commissions, Committees of Management and teachers of writing materials and of books prescribed by Regulations to be used in schools.