State, such plans to show the area, height, and connection of the rooms, the external offices and conveniences attached to the building, and all necessary details as to the drainage, ventilation, and arrangement of the offices. NOTE 3. The returns and accounts required (Rule 15) areForm A. Notice of each admission to the school. Form B. Monthly return of admissions, re-admissions, licences, deaths, discharges, desertions, &c., for the preceding month. Form C. Quarterly return of all inmates chargeable for maintenance during the previous quarter. Quarterly account of the sums due for the maintenance of the children under detention during the quarter. Licence Account. Return of inmates in employment on licence for previous quarter. Quarterly report of the sanitary state of the school and health of inmates. Quarterly return of punishments and offences. NOTE 4. In case of the managers of any reformatory school desiring to resign their certificate, the Reformatory Schools Act requires that six months' previous notice of such resignation be given to the Secretary of State (section 7). NOTE 5. By section 4 of the Reformatory Schools Act it is provided, "That no substantial addition or alteration must be made to "the buildings of any certified reformatory school without "the approval of the Secretary of State." NOTE 6. All communications for the inspector's office should be addressed To the Inspectors of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, 3, Delahay Street, London, S.W. N.B.-The postage on letters, returns, &c. thus addressed need not be prepaid. Short title. Extent of Act. Acts described in First Schedule repealed. Interpretation of terms. THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ACT, 1866. 29 & 30 VICT. c. 118. An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to Industrial Schools in Great Britain. [10th August 1866.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Preliminary. 1. This Act may be cited as the Industrial Schools Act, 1866. 2. This Act shall not extend to Ireland. 3. The Acts described in the First Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed; but this repeal shall not affect the past operation of any such Act, or the force or operation of any certificate, order, rule, or sentence, made or passed, or the validity or invalidity of anything done or suffered, or any right, title, obligation, or liability accrued, before the passing of this Act; nor shall this Act interfere with the institution or prosecution of any proceeding in respect of any offence committed against, or any penalty or forfeiture incurred under, any Act hereby repealed. 4. In this Act The term "justice" applies to England only, and means a justice of the peace having jurisdiction in the place where the matter requiring the cognizance of a justice arises : The term "two justices " applies to England only, and means two or more justices in petty sessions, or the Lord Mayor or an alderman of the city of London, or a police or stipendiary magistrate or other justice having by law authority to act alone for any purpose with the powers of two justices: The term magistrate" applies to Scotland only, and includes sheriff, sheriff substitute, justice of the peace of a county, judge in a police court and provost or baillie of a city or burgh : " The term "prison authority" with respect to 28 & 29 Vict. c. 126. The term "parish" includes a place separately 23 & 24 Vict. c. 105. maintaining its own poor. 5. A school in which industrial training† is provided Description of indusand in which children are lodged, clothed, and fed, as trial schools and well as taught,† shall exclusively be deemed an industrial managers (England school within the meaning of this Act. The persons for the time being having the management or control of such a school shall be deemed the managers thereof for the purposes of this Act. INSPECTION. and Scotland). Schools and assistant 6. Such one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Prisons‡ Appointment of as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State Inspector of Industrial (in this Act referred to as the Secretary of State) from (England and Scottime to time thinks fit to appoint to be the Inspector land). of Reformatory Schools shall be also the Inspector of Industrial Schools. The Secretary of State may from time to time appoint a fit person to assist the Inspector; and every person so appointed shall have such of the powers and duties of the Inspector of Industrial Schools as the Secretary of State from time to time prescribes, but shall act under the direction of the Inspector. CERTIFIED INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. land). 7. The Secretary of State may, on the application of Mode of certifying the managers of an industrial school,§ direct the industrial school Inspector of Industrial Schools to examine into the (England and Scotcondition of the school, and its fitness¶ for the reception of children to be sent there under this Act, and to report to him thereon, and the Inspector shall examine and report accordingly. If satisfied with the report of the Inspector the Secretary of State may, by writing under his hand, certify that the school is fit for the reception of children to be sent there under this Act, and there * See the Reformatory Schools Act, 1866, section 3 (note), ante, p. 2. † See General Rules, Appendix D. (1), post, p, 108, and as to Truant Schools, Appendix D. (2), p. 114. See the Reformatory Schools Act, 1866, section 4, ante, p. 2. § See section 5, above. I See section 6, above. For rules to be observed, see Appendix C., post, p. 107. School not to be Notices of certificate to be gazetted (England and Scotland). Copy of gazette to be evidence. Inspection of school (England and Scot land). Alterations, &c. of buildings to be approved (England and Scotland). Contribution by counties and boroughs to establishment and enlargement of schools. upon the school shall be deemed a certified industrial school.* 8. A school shall not be at the same time a certified industrial school under this Act and a certified reformatory school under any other Act. 9. A notice of the grant of each certificate shall within one montht be inserted by order of the Secretary of State in the London or in the Edinburgh Gazette, according as the school to which it refers is in England or in Scotland. A copy of the gazette containing the notice shall be conclusive evidence of the grant, which may also be proved by the certificate itself, or by an instrument purporting to be a copy of the certificate, and to be attested as such by the Inspector of Industrial Schools. 10. Every certified industrial school shall from time to time, and at least once in each year, be inspected by the Inspector of Industrial Schools, or by a person appointed to assist him as aforesaid.§ BUILDINGS. 11. No substantial addition or alteration shall be made to or in the buildings of any certified industrial school without the approval in writing of the Secretary of State. 12. In England a prison authority¶ may from time to time contribute such sums of money, and on such conditions as they think fit, towards the alteration, enlargement, or rebuilding of a certified industrial school,-or towards the support of the inmates of such *For a list of Certified Industrial Schools, showing the locality and the date of the certificate of each school, see Appendix B., post, p. 94. †I.e., a calendar month, 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21. s. 4. For the result of the inspection of each school see the Annual Report of the Inspector presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State. See also General Rules, Appendix D. (1) and D. (2), pp. 108 and 114. § See section 6, ante, p. 47. As to the mode of obtaining the approval of the Secretary of State see section 13, post, p. 53. As to the rules in regard to internal space, &c., see the rules to be observed in reference to any industrial school, post, Appendix C., p. 107. By section 17 of the Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 21), it is enacted that section 12 of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, subject to the provisions therein contained shall extend to authorise the prison authority themselves to under a school,-or towards the management of such a school, -or towards the establishment or building of a school intended to be a certified industrial school,-or towards the purchase of land required either for the use of an existing certified industrial school, or for the site of a school intended to be a certified industrial school; provided, First, that not less than two months previous notice* of the intention of the prison authority to take into consideration the making of such contribution, at a time and place to be mentioned in such notice, be given by advertisement in some one or more public newspaper or newspapers circulated within the districtt of the county or borough, and also in the manner in which notices relating to business to be transacted by the prison authority are usually given : Secondly, that where the prison authority is the council of a borough, the order for the contribution be made at a special meeting of the council : take anything towards which they are authorised by that section (12) to contribute, and the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, shall be construed as if in the said section, so far as it relates to England, the expressions "contribute towards" and "contribution" included respectively "undertake" and "undertaking"; and "the expenses "of a prison authority in England incurred in pursuance of this "section shall be defrayed accordingly," and by section 9 of the Bame Act. "A prison authority in England may contribute towards "the ultimate disposal of any inmate of a certified industrial school "established by such authority in pursuance of this part of this Act, " and the expenses incurred by a prison authority in England in pursuance of this section shall be deemed to be expenses incurred "by such authority in carrying into effect the provisions of the "Industrial Schools Act, 1866." By the Local Government (England and Wales) Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), section 3, authorises the transfer to the county council of each county all business done by the quarter sessions or any committee appointed by the quarter sessions in respect (amongst others) of the establishment and maintenance of, and the contribution to reformatory and industrial schools, and by section 38 (2) of the same Act, there shall be transferred to the county council the powers, &c. of the council of a borough with a population of under 10,000, in respect to reformatory and industrial schools; by section 35 (1) in boroughs over 10,000 the borough council retains such powers. By section 34 (1) the council of a county borough has itself the powers of a county council. As to the powers of a school board to contribute to industrial school, like prison authorities, &c., see Elementary Education Acts, post, pp. 50 to 53. * As to notice in case of school board contributing see section 14 of the Elementary Education Act (1870) Amendment, &c., post, P. 51. ↑ See the Swansea Dock Company v. Levien, 20 L.J. (N.S.) Exch. 447. |