Elementary Education (School Attendance) Act (1893) Amendment 1899

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (SCHOOL ATTENDANCE) ACT (1893) AMENDMENT 1899

CHAPTER XIII.

An Act to amend the Law respecting the Employment and Education of Young Children. [13th July 1899.]

Amendment of 56 & 57 Vict. c. 51.

33 & 34 Vict. c. 75.

39 & 40 Vict. c. 79.

1. . . . . The Elementary Education (School Attendance) Act, 1893, shall have effect as if “twelve” were substituted therein for “eleven.” . . . .

Provided also that the local authority for any district may, by byelaw for any parish within their district, fix thirteen years as the minimum age for exemption from school attendance in the case of children to be employed in agriculture, and that in such parish such children over eleven and under thirteen years of age who have passed the standard fixed for partial exemption from school attendance by the byelaws of the local authority shall not be required to attend school more than two hundred and fifty times in any year.

Such byelaw shall have effect as a byelaw made under section seventy-four of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, and all Acts amending the same.

The local authority shall be [1] the local authority fixed by section seven of the Elementary Education Act, 1876.

Provided also that a child shall be entitled to obtain partial exemption from school attendance on attaining the age of twelve years if such child has made three hundred attendances in not more than two schools during each year for five preceding years whether consecutive or not.

Short title and construction.

2. This Act may be cited as the Elementary Education (School Attendance) Act (1893) Amendment Act, 1899, and shall be read with the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 to 1897.

[1 Now the local education authority. See 2 Edw. 7. c. 42, s. 25 (2), Sched. 3; 3 Edw. 7. c. 24.]