Education Act 1946

13 Additional provisions relating to local administration

(1) In any legal proceedings any document purporting to be a document issued by a divisional executive and to be signed by a person authorised by the executive to sign it shall be received in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be the document which it purports to be and to be signed by the person by whom it purports to have been signed without proof of his identity, signature or official capacity.

(2) A divisional executive may, subject to any conditions or restrictions imposed by the scheme of divisional administration, authorise any committee or sub-committee of the executive to exercise any functions which the executive are authorised by the scheme to exercise on behalf of the local education authority; and, without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of Part III of the First Schedule to the principal Act relating to the contents of such schemes, any such scheme may include provisions for requiring a divisional executive to authorise a committee or sub-committee of the executive to exercise any such functions as aforesaid.