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the schooldivision;
(f) subject to the regulations, approve textbooks, library books,reference
books and other learning resources;
(g) approve of and provide for membership in provincial and national
educational associations by the board of education and officers of the board of
education, and provide for attendance at meetings of those associations;
(h) authorize expenditures with respect to functions and activities that have
been approved by the board of education with respect to a schoolcommunity
council;
(i) acquire by gift, devise or bequest real or personal property of any kind on
behalf of the schooldivision, for the purposes ofthe schooldivision, subject to
the terms, if any, of the gift, devise or bequest and, notwithstanding any other
provision of this Act, shall dispose of any real or personal property acquired in
accordance with those terms;
(j) invest any moneys of the board of education in any security or class of
securities authorized for investment of moneys in the general revenue fund
pursuant to The Financial Administration Act,1993;
(k) dispose of any investment made pursuant to clause (j) in any manner, on
any terms, and in any amount that the board of education considers expedient;
(l) subject to section 347 and to the regulations, dispose of or lease property
of the schooldivision and grant easement over any of the real property of the
schooldivision;
(m) become a member of a co-operative association or a credit union or
hold additional shares of which the board of education becomes the owner by
application of the dividends;
(n) provide for any meetings, seminars, workshops and conventions of
members of the board of education, members of schoolcommunity councils,
electors and teachers that may be considered advisable for the purposes of
educational planning and development in the schooldivision;
(o) Repealed. 2006, c.18, s.12.
(p) grant leave of absence to teachers and other employees of the board of
education;
(q) provide scholarships,bursaries or similar awards for the purposes ofthe
attendance of teachers and pupils at post-secondary institutions;
(r) provide for the payment of a gratuity or an annual allowance to any
employee of the board of education on retirement on account of age and may,
in its discretion, adjust or revise the annual allowance of that employee in
subsequent years;
(s) pay from funds of the schooldivision the employer’s contribution to an
approved pension plan to which the board of education and its employees, other
than teachers, are parties under a contract for that purpose;
(t) in the case of a separate schooldivision, prescribe the qualifications of
teachers who are to provide religious instruction;
(u) pay, for membership in an association of trustees organized in the province,
the appropriate sumset out in a schedule of fees adopted by the association at
an annual convention or by the executive committee of the association pursuant
to a direction of the association at an annual convention,and submitted to
the minister and approved by the minister, but, where the minister does not
approve a schedule of fees submitted to him or her, the last schedule of fees
approved by the minister continues to apply;