An Act to provide for public Elementary Education in Eng- A.D. 1870. land and Wales. [9th August, 1870.]

BE it dvi Qund consent of the Lords Spiritual

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by

and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows; (that is to say,)

Preliminary.

I. This Act may be cited as "The Elementary Education Short title. Act, 1870."

2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

3. In this Act

The term "metropolis" means the places for the time being within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855. The term "borough" means any place for the time being subject to the Act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled "An Act to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales," and the Acts amending the same.

The term "parish" means a place for which for the time being a separate poor rate is or can be made.

The term "person" includes a body corporate.

The term "Education Department" means "the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education."

Extent of Act.

Definition of terms.

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