The Educational Endowments (Strathclyde Region) Transfer Scheme Order 1996

Renfrewshire Educational Trust Scheme 1961

3.—(1) The Renfrewshire Educational Trust Scheme 1961(1) shall be amended in accordance with this paragraph.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, for the words “the County Council”, wherever they appear in the Scheme, substitute “each Council”.

(3) In section 2, for paragraphs (b) to (e) substitute—

“(b) three persons to be elected by East Renfrewshire Council being members of the Council or non-councillor members of its education committee;

(c) three persons to be elected by Inverclyde Council being members of that Council or non-councillor members of its education committee;

(d) five persons to be elected by Renfrewshire Council being members of that Council or non-councillor members of its education committee;

(e) one person to be elected by the governing body (excluding for this purpose any person previously so elected) from among ministers of religion officiating in the County other than ministers of the Church of Scotland;”.

(4) For section 4 substitute—

(1) The election of governors by each Council may be by the Council themselves or may be delegated to a committee of the Council.

(2) Each governor elected by a Council shall, subject to section 6, hold office until the next ordinary election of councillors of that Council.”.

(5) For section 18(1)(f) substitute—

“(f) they shall pay to Inverclyde Council the sum of £194 to be expended by that Council in such manner as they think most beneficial to the students attending James Watt College, Greenock;

(ff) they shall pay to the three Councils a total of £1,262 to be expended by them on prizes in accordance with section 47, the amount paid to each Council being the total of the sums to be expended annually on prizes for persons attending educational establishments in their area, as those sums are stated in column (4) of the Seventh Schedule;”.

(6) In section 47(1) for the first sentence substitute—

• “Each Council shall expend the amount paid to them under section 18(1)(ff) in awarding annually the prizes described in the Seventh Schedule which are for persons attending educational establishments in their area.”.

(7) In section 47(6), for the words “in the County” substitute “in their area”.

(8) In section 49(1)—

(a) for the definitions of “County” and “County Council” substitute—

““County” means the area of the former County of Renfrew and the burghs situated in it, but does not include any part of the area of the former County of the City of Glasgow, as those areas existed immediately before 16th May 1975;

“Council” means any of East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde or Renfrewshire Councils.”.

(b) after the definition of “date of the Scheme” insert the following definition:—

““education committee” means a committee of a Council to which section 124 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 applies;”.

(9) In the Third Schedule—

(a) in the entry in column (2) for payment 7, for “the County Council” substitute “Renfrewshire Council”;

(b) for the entry in column (2) for payment 8 there shall be substituted—

• “The governing body shall each year pay to East Renfrewshire Council the sum of £7.00, Inverclyde Council the sum of £7.00 and Renfrewshire Council the sum of £13.50, to be expended by each Council in awarding grants to pupils who are attending schools in their area and who require financial assistance to enable them to attend a school camp.”; and

(c) in the entry in column (2) for payment 9, for “the County Council” substitute “the Council for the relevant area”.

(1)

Approved by Order in Council dated 26th May 1961, amended by S.I. 1965/1135 and 1974/1666.