Law as to Employment and Education of Children.

4. Declaration of duty of parent to educate child.

5. Regulation as to employment of child under ten, and certificate of education or previous school attendance being condition of, employment of child over ten.

6. Penalty for employing a child in contravention of Act.

7. Enforcement of Act by school board or school attendance committee of existing local authority or by inspectors of factories or mines. 8. Employment and education of children in factories, &c.

9. Exception to prohibition of employment of children.

10. Payment of school fees for poor parents.

11. Provision as to order of court for attendance at school of child habitually neglected by parent or habitually wandering and consorting with criminals or disorderly persons.

12. Proceedings on disobedience to order of court for attendance at school.

13. Duty of local authority as to taking proceedings under this Act or 29 & 30 Vict., c. 118.

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Industrial School.

14. Licence to child sent to industrial school to live out while attending

school.

15. Amendment as to provision of industrial school by school board.

Day Industrial School.

16. Establishment, &c., of day industrial schools.

17. Conditions of contribution to day industrial schools.

Parliamentary Grant.

18. Contribution for fees of children who obtain certificates.

19. Amendment of 33 & 34 Vict., c. 75, s. 97, as to conditions of annual

Parliamentary grant.

20. Conditions for obtaining Parliamentary grant.

Byelaws.

21. School attendance committee to have like powers with school boards of enforcing by byelaw attendance of children.

22. Provision as to requisition of parish.

23. Provision as to byelaws under section 74 of the Elementary Education Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict., c. 75), as extended by this Act.

Administrative Provisions.

24. Supplemental provisions as to certificates of proficiency and previous attendance at school.

25. Certi cates of birth for purposes of Act.

26. Returns of registrars of births and deaths to school boards.

27. Provision in case of failure of local authority to perform their duty under this Act.

28. Officers of local authority.

29. Power of officer of local authority to enter place of employment. 30. Provision as to powers and expenses of school board.

31. Expenses of local authority other than school board.

32. Provisions as to school attendance committee, and appointment of local committee.

33. Power to authorise appointment of school attendance committee by urban sanitary authority.

iii.

34. Clerk of school attendance committee of guardians, and application

of Acts to guardians and school attendance committee.

35. Charge to parish of money for school fees.

36. Effect of subsequent appointment of school board.

Legal Proceedings.

37. Application of 36 & 37 Vict., c. 86, ss. 23-5, to penalties, and punishment for fraudulently obtaining payment of fees.

38. No prosecutions except with the authority of two members of a school board or local authority.

39. Exemption of employer on proof of guilt of some other

Miscellaneous.

person.

40. Adaptation of 36 & 37 Vict., c. 86, s. 3, respecting pauper children,

to this Act.

41. Dissolution of school board under certain circumstances.

42. Provision of offices by school board with consent of Education Department.

43. Local authority to send returns.

44. Amendment of 33 & 34 Vict., c. 75, as to elections to fill casual vacancies in school board.

45. Application of 33 & 34 Vict., c. 75, ss. 83, 84, to orders and documents of Education Department.

46. Effect of Schedules.

47. Definition of employment in case of parent.

48. General definitions..

49. Provision as to part of a parish.

50. Construction of this Act with other enactments.

51. Temporary modification as to application of Act, and saving for children in employment at passing of Act.

52. Repeal of Acts.

PART II.

53. Application of the Act to Scotland.

SCHEDULES.

An Act to make further provision for Elementary Education. A.D. 1876. [15th August 1876.] HEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the education of children, and for securing the fulfilment of parental responsibility in relation thereto, and otherwise to amend and to extend the Elementary Education Acts:

WH

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 "Elementary Education Short title. Act, 1876."

2. This Act shall not, save as otherwise expressly provided, Extent of apply to Scotland or Ireland.

Act.

3. This Act shall, save as otherwise expressly provided, Commencecome into operation on the first day of January one thousand ment of Act. eight hundred and seventy-seven (which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act).

PART I

Law as to Employment and Education of Children.

parent to

4. It shall be the duty of the parent of every child to Declaration cause such child to receive efficient elementary instruction of duty of in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and if such parent fail to educate perform such duty he shall be liable to such orders and child. penalties as are provided by this Act.

5 A person shall not, after the commencement of this Regulation Act, take into his employment (except as hereinafter in this as to employ. Act mentioned) any child

age

of ten years; or

ment of child under 10, and certificate of education or previous

(1.) Who is under the (2.) Who, being of the age of ten years or upwards, has not obtained such certificate either of his proficiency in school atreading, writing, and elementary arithmetic, or of tendance previous due attendance at a certified efficient school, tion of emas is in this Act in that behalf mentioned, unless ployment of