Education Act 1946

10 Qualification of teachers for membership of local authorities and their committees

(1) For the proviso to section ninety-four of the [23 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 51.] Local Government Act, 1933, there shall be substituted the following proviso :—

“Provided that a person shall not, by reason of his being a teacher in, or being otherwise employed in, any school, college or other educational institution maintained or assisted by a. local education authority, be disqualified for being a member of any committee or sub-committee of any local authority—

(a) appointed for the purposes of the enactments relating to education;

(b) appointed for the care of the mentally defective ; or

(c) appointed under this Act or under section four of the [56 & 57 Vict. c. 11.] Public Libraries (Amendment) Act, 1893, for purposes connected with the execution of the Public Libraries Acts, 1892 to 1919 ;

or for being a representative of a local authority on a joint committee appointed by agreement between the authority and other local authorities for any such purpose as aforesaid.”

(2) Subsection (2) of section fifty-nine of the Local Government Act, 1933, shall not operate so as to disqualify any person for being elected or being a member of the council of a county district by reason of his being a teacher in, or being otherwise employed in, any school, college or other educational institution maintained or assisted by a local education authority.

(3) In Part I of the Eighth Schedule to the principal Act, the provision amending section ninety-four of the Local Government Act, 1933, is hereby repealed.

(4) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-five.