AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENTS OF THE EDUCATION REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 10 of 1956

	The Education Regulations are amended in two particulars:–

1.	The amendments to Regulation 18 is consequential upon the amendments to the Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Fares Regulations increasing the fares charged for children travelling to and from school.

2.	The Regulations provide for the award of bursaries to scholars who show the greatest merit in a qualifying examination and whose parents received incomes not exceeding certain permissible limits.  The allowances paid to bursars vary between first and fifth years.  The scale of permissible incomes varies according to the size of the family.

	The object of the present amendment to the Regulations is, in view of increased school fees and living costs, to increase the limits of permissible incomes of parents.  Similar increases were recently effected in New South Wales.