74. Every school board may from time to time, with the approval of the Education Department, make bye-laws for all or any of the following purposes :—

(1.)	Requiring the parents of children of such age, not less than five, nor more than thirteen, years as may be fixed by the bye-laws, to cause such children (unless there is some reasonable excuse) to attend school.
(2.)	Determining the time during which children are so to attend school: Provided that no such bye-law shall prevent the withdrawal of any child from any religious observance or instruction in religious subjects, or shall require any child to attend school on any day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which his parent belongs, or shall be contrary to page 60 anything contained in any Act for regulating the education of children employed in labour.
(3.)	Providing for the remission or payment of the whole or any part of the fees of any child where the parent satisfies the school board that he is unable from poverty to pay the same.