Arrangement of Clauses.

Preliminary.

Clauses.

1.	Short title.
2.	Extent of Act.
3.	Commencement of Act.

Part I.

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, etc.

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.

Industrial School.

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

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

Day Industrial Schools.

16. Establishment, etc. 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. Certificates 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 authorize appointment of school attendance committee by urban sanitary authority.

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.

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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 person.

Miscellaneous.

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

41. 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.