Whereas in the year 1957 the Government of Cyprus established at Nicosia an educational establishment known as the English School for Girls (in this Law called "the School");
And whereas it is considered desirable to make legislative provision for the future management and control of the said School:
Be it enacted, therefore, by His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Cyprus as follows:-
1. This Law may be cited as the English School for Girls (Management and Control) Law, 1960.
2.-(1) The School shall be managed and controlled by a Board of Management consisting of the Representative of the British Council in Cyprus for the time being, or in his absence or incapacity of his deputy, as ex officio member, and eight other members appointed by the Governor (hereinafter referred to as "the appointed members"). The Governor shall designate one of the members of the Board of Management to be its Chairman:
Provided that the Board of Management shall have power to co-opt not more than two persons as members and any person so co-opted shall be deemed to be a member of the Board of Management for all the purposes of this Law.
(2) The Governor may at any time terminate the appointment of the Chairman or of any appointed or co-opted member.
(3) The Governor may, upon the death, resignation, retirement or termination of appointment of any appointed member appoint another fit and proper person to fill the vacancy.
(4) The Governor may in the case of illness or absence from Cyprus of any appointed member appoint a fit and proper person in the place of such member until such member shall resume his duties.
(5) The Board of Management shall manage and control the School and any of its property.
(6) The Board of Management may, for the purpose of such management and control, in any year and with the consent of the Governor, borrow temporarily from the Bank at which the account of the Board of Management is kept any money not exceeding the twenty per centum of the estimated revenue of the Board of Management for the period for which the current estimates of the Board of Management are made. The amount so borrowed shall be repaid from the revenue of the Board during such period.
(7) The Board of Management may sue and be sued in the name of its Chairman.
(8) No member of the Board of Management shall incur any personal liability for any act done in performance of his functions in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
(9) The Board of Management may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership.
(10) The Board of Management may make regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Law and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations for-
(a) regulating the procedure of the Board of Management;
(b) the appointment, remuneration and terms of employment of staff and the dismissal of staff;
(c) the provision of gratuities or other retirement benefits for the staff;
(d) the keeping and auditing of the accounts of the School;
(e) the investment of moneys by the Board of Management;
(f) the making of provision for the award of such scholarships, bursaries or prizes for the benefit of the School as the Board of Management may think fit;
(g) generally for the management and control of the School.
3. Upon the coming into operation of this Law the Governor shall make available for the use of the Board of Managenent all the movable property forming the furniture and equipment used on the date of the coming into operation of this Law for the purposes of the School, whereupon the Board of Management-
(a) shall take over, and shall continue to carry on, the School as a school in its present form or in such other form as the Governor may from time to time determine;
(b) shall manage and control the School as in section 2 prescribed.
4.-(1) If at any time after the Board of Management has assumed the management and control of the School, the Governor, on the advice of the Board of Management, considers it no longer necessary for the School to continue to function as a school, the Governor may, by writing under his hand, direct that the School be closed, and thereupon it shall be closed.
(2) Upon the closing of the School as in subsection (1) provided the Governor may, by writing under his hand, direct that the movable property of the School existing on the date of the closing and taken over as in section 3 provided be returned to Government and that all other movable property subsequently acquired and existing on that date be utilised for such purpose being for the benefit of the youth of Cyprus as the Governor may determine, or be sold and the proceeds thereof be applied to such purpose aforesaid and in such manner as the Governor may determine.