VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1943

AN ACT TO AMEND THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACTS, 1930 AND 1936. [2nd June, 1943.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

1 Defrayment of certain travelling expenses.

1.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a vocational education committee for a county vocational education area shall defray the expenses of locomotion incurred—

• (a) by each of its members in travelling to and from meetings of such committee held after the 30th day of June, 1943, and

• (b) by a member of a sub-committee of such committee in travelling to and from meetings of such sub-committee held after the 30th day of June, 1943.

• (2) No person shall be paid under this section expenses in respect of a meeting held at a place less than five miles by any route from his ordinary place of residence.

• (3) The amount of the expenses paid under this section to a person in respect of a meeting shall not exceed the amount of the expenses of locomotion which would reasonably have been incurred by him in travelling from and to his ordinary place of residence to and from the place of that meeting.

• (4) No person shall be paid under this section expenses in respect of meetings of a sub-committee unless the Minister, on the application of the vocational education committee by whom that sub-committee was appointed, authorise the payment under this section of expenses to members of that sub-committee.

• (5) A claim, for payment under this section of expenses shall be made in writing and the Minister, if he so thinks fit, may direct the form to be used in making such claim.

2 False statement for purpose of obtaining payment under this Act.

2.—(1) A person who knowingly makes or allows to be made a false statement for the purpose of obtaining a payment under this Act for himself or another 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 for a term not exceeding one year.

• (2) A person who is convicted of an offence under this section shall thereafter be disqualified from being elected or being a member of a vocational education committee or a sub-committee thereof, or of a body which is a local authority for any of the purposes of the Local Government Acts, 1925 to 1941, or of a council established by law in respect of a county or other borough or a committee of such council, and shall also be disqualified from holding an office or employment under a vocational education committee or such a body, council, or committee as aforesaid.

3 Cesser of application of section 22 of Vocational Education Act, 1930, and Second Schedule thereto.

3.—Section 22 of the Vocational Education Act, 1930 (No. 29 of 1930), and the Second Schedule to that Act shall not apply in relation to a meeting held after the 30th day of June, 1943, of a vocational education committee for a county vocational education area or of a sub-committee thereof.

4 Short title, construction, and collective citation.

4.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Vocational Education (Amendment) Act, 1943.

• (2) The Vocational Education Acts, 1930 and 1936, and this Act shall be construed together as one Act.

• (3) The Vocational Education Acts, 1930 and 1936, and this Act may be cited together as the Vocational Education Acts, 1930 to 1943.