The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Certificates under Labour Acts
Certificates under Labour Acts.
113. The inspector after his yearly visit (Article 11) to a school will grant such certificates as may be required for scholars who have reached the standard (Article 28) prescribed by, or pursuant to the provisions of, the Agricultural Children Act, 1873, or any other Act for regulating the education of children employed in labour.
114. The inspector may depute his assistant, or the certificated teacher of the school, to sign these certificates.
115. Certificates will be issued for those scholars only who pass in all the three subjects (Article 28) in the prescribed standard, or in a higher standard.
116. For the purpose of granting these certificates, the inspector or his assistant, will examine—
(1.) | Scholars in the school, whether they have made 250 attendances (Article 19 B.), or not; |
(2.) | Other children, not being scholars in the school, allowed by the managers to attend on the day of inspection. |
117. If there is no school under inspection at which the children of any parish, or group of parishes, for whom certificates are re-
quired, can conveniently attend for examination, application for a special examination may be made by any person interested in procuring such certificates, subject to the following regulations:—
( a.) | The application shall be sent to the inspector for the district not less than 14 days before the date at which it is desired that the examination should be held. |
( b.) | The applicant must specify the number of children (not less than 15) to be presented for examination, and must undertake—
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( c.) | The applicant must satisfy the inspector that he is a proper person to conduct the preliminary proceedings, and, if necessary, to receive for distribution the certificates which may be granted after the examination. |