Elementary Education Act, 1891

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Fee grant and conditions thereof.

1.—(1) . . . . There shall be paid, out of moneys provided by Parliament, and at such times and in such manner as may be determined by regulations of the Education Department,[²] a grant (in this Act called a fee grant) in aid of the cost of elementary education in England and Wales at the rate of ten shillings a year for each child of the number of children over three and under fifteen years of age in [³] average attendance at any public elementary school in England and Wales (not being an evening school) the managers of which are willing to receive the same, and in which the Education Department[²] are satisfied that the regulations as to fees are in accordance with the conditions in this Act.

(2) If in any case there is a failure to comply with any of the conditions in this Act, and the Education Department[²] are satisfied that there was a reasonable excuse for the failure, the Department may pay the fee grant, but in that case shall, if the amount received from fees has exceeded the amount allowed by this Act, make a deduction from the fee grant equal to that excess.

(3) For the purposes of section nineteen of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, the fee grant paid or payable to a school shall be reckoned as school pence to be met by the grant payable by the Education Department.[²]

[² Now the Board of Education; see 62 & 63 Vict. c. 33. s. 2 (1).]

[³ See 63 & 64 Vict. c. 53. s. 1.]