School Attendance Act, 1926

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Number 17 of 1926.

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ACT, 1926.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1.	Definitions.
2.	Application of this Act.
3.	Date of attainment of any particular age.
4.	Obligation to attend school.
5.	Certification of suitable schools.
6.	School attendance area to which child belongs.
7.	Restriction on employment of children.
8.	The enforcing authority.
9.	Constitution of school attendance areas.
10.	Appointment of school attendance committees for certain areas.
11.	Officers of school attendance committees.
12.	School attendance officers.
13.	Expenses of school attendance committees.
14.	Minister may dissolve school attendance committees.
15.	Principal teachers to make certain returns, etc.
16.	Parent to notify cause of absence.
17.	Failure of parent to comply with this Act.
18.	Miscellaneous provisions as to prosecutions under the Act.
19.	Inspection and copies of registers of births and deaths.
20.	Parents to furnish particulars of their children.
21.	Authentication of warnings, notices, etc.
22.	Offences in relation to certificates.
23.	Regulations.
24.	Extension of application of this Act.
25.	Expenses.
26.	Repeals and provisions consequent thereon.
27.	Short title and commencement.

Act Referred to
Local Government Act, 1925	No. 5 of 1925

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Number 17 of 1926.

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ACT, 1926.

AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR ENSURING THE ATTENDANCE OF CHILDREN AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. [27th May, 1926.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—