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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

Supplemental

Supplemental.

15. After the first day of January one thousand eight

Education of children to be in efficient school.

hundred and seventy-six, attendance at a school in England which is not for the time being recognised by the Education Department as giving efficient elementary education shall not in the case of a child employed in a factory to which this Act applies be deemed to be attendance at a school within the meaning of this Act or the Factory Act, 1844: Provided that,—
(1.)This section shall not apply to a school in any school district within the meaning of the Elementary Education Act, 1870 which has not been declared by the Education Department to be sufficiently provided with public school accommodation within the meaning of that Act:
(2.)This section shall not apply where there is not a school so recognised within the distance of two miles from the factory in which the child is employed.

The Education Department shall make such declaration as above mentioned with respect to every school district which they are satisfied is supplied with sufficient public school accommodation, and shall from time to time publish in such manner as they think sufficient to give information to all persons interested, lists of the schools for the time being recognised by them as giving efficient elementary education.

This section shall apply to Scotland in like manner as if it were enacted with the substitution of "Scotch Education Department" for "Education Department," of "parish or burgh" for "school district," and of "such school accommodation as is mentioned in sections twenty-seven and twenty-eight of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872," for "public school accommodation."