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.