73. Καταργήθηκε από το άρθρο 18 του περί Σχολικών Εφορειών Νόμου του 1997, (Ν.108(Ι)/97).
74. Καταργήθηκε από το άρθρο 18 του περί Σχολικών Εφορειών Νόμου του 1997, (Ν.108(Ι)/97).
75. Whenever it shall appear to the Governor on the report of the Director that it is desirable to permit, require or compel any Town Committee or Village Commission or Committee of Management to provide, erect, repair, extend, improve or develop any school buildings, premises, playgrounds, yards, gardens or teachers’ dwellings, the Governor may make an order to be published in the Gazette accordingly.
76. Upon the publication of such Order the Town Committee or Village Commission or Committee of Management concerned shall cause estimates and plans to be prepared to the satisfaction of the Director and the Commissioner, for which purpose an architect or engineer may be employed if necessary and his remuneration included in the estimates.
77. In case a new site is required the Director and the Commissioner shall, with the assistance of the Town Committee or Village Commission or Committee of Management concerned, proceed to select a suitable site for the establishment of school buildings, premises, playgrounds, yards, gardens or teachers’ dwellings, as the case may be, and upon the report of the Director of Medical Services or any Medical Officer deputed by him that the site is suitable from a sanitary point of view and if the owner of such site consents in writing to the acquisition of such site, the site shall at the instance of the Director be registered in the books of the District Lands Office as an elementary school site, and all right and title of the owner in and to the land, trees or buildings thereon shall thereupon cease and determine and the immovable property tax thereon shall from the day of registration be written off.
78. When any site has been so selected and the owner thereof does not consent to its acquisition, upon the certificate of the Commissioner that the site has been so selected and upon the report of the Director of Medical Services or any Medical Officer deputed by him that the site is suitable from a sanitary point of view, the Commissioner shall notify his sanction to the acquisition of the site by notice in the Gazette, and the site shall at the instance of the Director be registered in the books of the Districts Lands Office as an elementary school site, and all right and title of the owner or any other persons in and to the land, trees or buildings thereon shall thereupon cease and determine and the immovable property tax thereon shall from the day of registration be written off:
Provided that-
(a) no building used for religious observances or in connection therewith;
(b) no land adjacent to any building used for religious observances and used in connection with such building;
(c) no building land or tree belonging to any church, mosque or school of a religious community other than the religious community for the schools of which it is desired to acquire such building, land or tree,
shall be compulsorily acquired under this Law.
79. In respect of any land, trees or buildings taken under this Law, compensation shall be paid to the owner thereof either-
(a) at the rate to be agreed upon between him and the Director and the Commissioner, or
(b) in case the compensation cannot be agreed upon, at a rate to be assessed as hereinafter prescribed.
80. If within one month from the date of the notification of such sanction as aforesaid the persons interested do not agree with the Director and the Commissioner as to the compensation for the site so acquired (1) such compensation shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of any Law, in force for the time being, providing for the acquisition of land for public purposes.
81. When the estimates have been approved and the site if any, has been acquired, the Town Committee or Village Commission or Committee of Management concerned shall proceed to carry out the works to the satisfaction of the Director and the Commissioner, and the cost of so doing shall be raised, collected and paid in the manner hereinafter provided:
Provided that the Town Committee or Village Commission or Committee of Management concerned before proceeding to carry out the works aforesaid shall, if so required by the Director, call for public tenders in respect thereof and shall not, without the consent in writing of the Director, accept any such tender or enter into any contract or agreement relating to such works.
82. The Director shall have power to prescribe the form in which the estimates for works ordered under this Law shall be submitted and the accounts of the expenditure thereupon shall be kept. He shall also have power to prescribe for the due auditing of such accounts.
83. A Town Committee, Village Commission or Committee of Management shall be able and shall be deemed always to have been able to be constituted trustees for any endowment or charity for purposes connected with elementary education, whether the endowment or charity was established before or after the date of the coming into operation of this Law, and shall have power to accept any property given to them as an endowment or upon trust for any purposes connected with elementary education:
Provided that no such property shall be so accepted without the prior consent in writing of the Director.
84.-(1) All property already acquired by or for any school under the provisions of any Law heretofore in force or that shall hereafter be acquired under the provisions of this Law or otherwise shall, if movable vest in, and if immovable vest in and be registered in, the names of the following persons to be held in trust for the school concerned-
(a) for Greek-Orthodox and Moslem schools in towns, the Chairman of the Town Committee and in villages the Chairman of the Village Commission;
(b) for schools of other religious communities, as the Governor may direct.
(2) All such immovable property of every category shall be registered in the books of the District Lands Office in accordance with the preceding subsection unless the same has been acquired by gift or dedication in which case the property shall be held and registered in accordance with the terms of the deed of gift or dedication, if any.
(3) No disposition of such immovable property shall hereafter be made without the authority of the Governor.
(4) No such property whether movable or immovable shall be liable to be attached, seized, taken or sold in execution of any judgment.
(5) No tax, rate or due whatsoever shall be leviable in respect of such property.