Section 2: In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-

" assisted school " means a school assisted by grants-inaid from public funds; "child" means any person under the age of twenty-one years; Interpretation~ 15 of 1957. Cap. 65. Cap. 79. Cap. 75. Cap. 76. "department" means the Department of Education of Sierra Leone; " Director " means the Director of Education, Sierra Leone; " employer " means an employer of teachers and includes the Government of Sierra Leone; " Government school " means a school managed by the Department; "Inspector" means any person authorised in writing by the Director to inspect schools; " Local Authority " means the City Council of Freetown constituted under the Freetown Municipality Ordinance, a District Council constituted under the District Councils Ordinance, the Rural Area Council established under the Rural Area Ordinance, and the Sherbro Urban District Council established under the Sherbro Urban District Council Ordinance; " Local Education Authority " means a Local Education Authority established under section 13; " manager ", in the case of a school managed by the proprietor thereof, means the proprietor; and, in the case of any other school, means the person or body of persons for the time being appointed by the proprietor to be responsible for the management of the school as the representative of the proprietor in Sierra Leone, and for the purposes of the provisions of this Ordinance relating to applications to establish or open schools includes an intended manager; "medical inspection" means the physical examination of pupils in attendance at a school and the consideration by a School Medical Officer of all matters affecting the health of such children and includes physical examination by a School Nurse; " Minister " means the Member of Executive Council responsible for education; " parent ", in relation to any child, includes a guardian and every person who has the actual custody of the child; " primary school " means a school providing a course of instruction for all or any of the first six years of the school curriculum in accordance with a syllabus approved by the Director in respect of primary schools; " private school " means a school which receives no assistance from public funds; ·::; "proprietor ", in relation to any school, means the person or body of persons responsible for the management of the school either directly or through a manager appointed in that behalf, and for the purposes of the provisions of this Ordinance relating to applications to establish or open schools includes any person or body of persons proposing to be so responsible; " public funds " means Government funds or the funds of a Local Authority; " pupil " means a person of any age for whom education is provided in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance; " school " means an institution in which not less than ten pupils receive regular instruction and includes any assembly of ten or more pupils for the purpose of receiving regular instruction, but does not include- (a) any institution or assembly in which the instruction is wholly or, in the opinion of the Director, mainly of a religious character; (b) any institution owned and maintained by a religious society for the purpose of training persons for the ordained ministry or for admission to a religious order under the direction of or associated with such religious society; or (c) any institution which is affiliated to any university in Great Britain; "School Committee" means a School Committee appointed under section 21 or section 26, as the context may require; " School Medical Officer " means any officer of the Medical Department of Sierra Leone and any other registered practitioner appointed by the Director of Medical Services to act as a School Medical Officer; "School Nurse" means any person appointed by the Director of Medical Services to be a School Nurse; " secondary school " means a school to which pupils are admitted after completing, to the satisfaction of the Director, the approved course for primary schools and providing a course of instruction in accordance with a syllabus approved by the Director in consultation with the Board of Education in respect of secondary schools. PART H.-CONTROL OF EDUCATION.