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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Schedules. — First Schedule
Schedules.
First Schedule.
For the purpose of Employment.
| (a.) | The standard of reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic fixed by standard four of the Code of 1876, or any higher standard. |
2. The standard of previous due attendance at a certified efficient school for the purpose of a certificate under this Act enabling a child to be employed shall be two hundred and fifty attendances after five years of age in not more than two schools during each year for five years, whether consecutive or not:
| During the Year. | The Standard of Proficiency shall be the Standard of Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic fixed by the following Standard of the Code of 1876, or any higher standard, namely,— | The Standard of previous due Attendance shall be | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The following Number of Attendances. | In not more than Two Schools during each year for the following Number of Years, whether consecutive or not. | ||
| 1877 | Second | 250 | Two. |
| 1878 | Second | 250 | Two. |
| 1879 | Third | 250 | Three. |
| 1880 | Third | 250 | Four. |
| (a.) | In the case of a school district in which for not less than three years before the commencement of this Act byelaws have been in force requiring, as a condition of total or partial exemption of a child from attendance at school, that such child must have passed a standard of proficiency corresponding to the fourth standard of the Code of 1876 or any higher standard, the same or a corresponding standard of proficiency (but not exceeding the standard which, under this schedule, will be required after four years from the commencement of this Act) shall be required for the purpose of a certificate under this Act enabling a child to be employed. |
| (b.) | Where a child has been lawfully taken into employment in any year in consequence of having obtained a certificate in accordance with the above table, such child may in any subsequent year be taken into employment without any further certificate, notwithstanding that under the table a certificate requiring a higher standard is required for that year. |
For the purpose of the Payment of Fees.
4. The standard of proficiency in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic for the purpose of a certificate under this Act, with a view to allow of the payment of fees by the Education Department, shall be the standard of reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic fixed by standard four of the Code of 1876 or such higher standard as may be from time to time fixed by the Education Department, and shall include any standard higher than the one fixed by this rule, or than the one for the time being fixed by the Education Department:
5. The standard of previous due attendance at a public elementary school for the purpose of a certificate under this Act, with a view to allow of the payment of fees by the Education Department, shall be three hundred and fifty attendances after five years of age in not more than two schools during each year for five years, or such larger number of attendances as may be for the time being fixed by the Education Department:
| During the Year. | The standard of previous due Attendance shall be | |
|---|---|---|
| The following Number of Attendances. | In not more than Two Schools during each year for the following number of Years. | |
| 1877 | 350 | Two. |
| 1878 | 350 | Two. |
| 1879 | 350 | Three. |
| 1880 | 350 | Four. |
7. The Education Department may from time to time by order make, and when made revoke and vary, such regulations and conditions in relation to the payment of fees under this Act by that Department as they may think expedient.
8. The order shall provide that not more than ten per cent, of the children presented for examination in a public elementary school shall obtain in the same year certificates entitling them to the payment of fees, and that if the
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children qualified to obtain such certificates exceed the said percentage, those children who have attended the greatest number of times shall have the preference.
9. The order may make the continuance of the payment dependent upon the fulfilment of conditions, and shall provide that the continuance of the payment shall be conditional upon the child attending the school for not less than three hundred and fifty attendances in each year, and obtaining at the end of each year a certificate of proficiency in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic according to a standard higher than the standard according to which it obtained the previous certificate.
10. The order shall further provide that the school, by previous due attendance at which the child was qualified for obtaining the payment of fees, and the school, the fees at which are paid by the Education Department, shall be a school, or department of a school, at which the ordinary payment in respect of the instruction of each scholar does not exceed sixpence a week.
Miscellaneous.
11. Attendance for the purpose of this schedule means an attendance as defined by the Code of 1876, and where the attendance is at a certified day industrial school includes such attendance as may be from time to time directed for the purpose by a Secretary of State, and where the attendance is at a workhouse school includes such attendance as may be from time to time directed for the purpose by the Local Government Board.
12. The Code of 1876 in this schedule means the Code of the Minutes of the Education Department made in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six with respect to the parliamentary grant to public elementary schools in England, and in the case of a school in Scotland means the Code of the Minutes of the Scotch Education Department made in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six with respect to the parliamentary grant to elementary schools.
Second Schedule.
Rules as to a Local Committee.
1. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the school attendance committee may from time to time add to or diminish the number of members, or change the members of any local committee appointed by them, or may dissolve any such committee.
2. A local committee shall, unless the school attendance committee appointing them otherwise direct, continue in office until the first meeting of that committee after the next annual appointment thereof, and thereafter until a new local committee is appointed.
Rules as to School Attendance Committee and Local Committee.
3. Subject to any regulations made in the case of a school attendance committee by the council or guardians appointing it, and in the case of a local committee by the school attendance committee appointing it, the provisions of the Third Schedule of "The Elementary Education Act, 1870," with reference to proceedings of managers appointed by a school board, shall apply to the proceedings of a school attendance committee and a local committee under this Act, as if the body appointing the committee were a school board.
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4. Any casual vacancy in a school attendance committee or local committee may be filled up by the body who appointed such committee.
5. A school attendance committee shall continue in office until the first meeting of the council or guardians appointing it after the next annual election of councillors and guardians, and thereafter until the new committee is appointed.
6. A committee appointed by guardians shall be appointed at the first meeting after the annual election of guardians, or some other meeting fixed with the approval of the Local Government Board for the purpose.
Third Schedule.
Rule as to Election of School Board.
If any casual vacancy in the office of a member of a school board occurs by death, resignation, disqualification, or otherwise, such vacancy may be filled by the remaining members of the school board, if a quorum, at a special meeting of the board called for the purpose.
Fourth Schedule.
Acts Repealed.
| Session and Chapter. | Short Title. | Extent of Repeal. |
|---|---|---|
| 30 & 31 Vict. c. 146. | The Workshop Regulation Act, 1867. | Sections fourteen and fifteen. |
| 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75. | The Elementary Education Act, 1870. | Section twenty-five, so much of section seventy-four, and of any byelaw made thereunder, as is affected by the repeal of section twenty-five, and the rule numbered fifteen in the first part of the second schedule, and the rule numbered six in the third part of the second schedule. |
| 36 & 37 Vict. c. 67. | The Agricultural Children Act, 1873. | The whole Act. |
| 36 & 37 Vict. c. 86. | The Elementary Education Act, 1873. | Section three. |
| 37 & 38 Vict. c. 88. | The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874. | Section twenty-nine. |