Elementary Education Act, 1900

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT 1900

CHAPTER LIII

An Act to amend the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 to 1893.[1] [8th August 1900.]

Calculation of average attendance.

54 & 55 Vict. c. 56.

1. For the purpose of the fee grant under the Elementary Education Act, 1891, average attendance shall be calculated in accordance with the minutes of the Board of Education in force for the time being in respect to public elementary schools.

Power of guardians to contribute to expenses of public elementary school.

2. The board of guardians of any poor law union may contribute towards such of the expenses of providing, enlarging, or maintaining, any public elementary school as are certified by the Board of Education to have been incurred wholly or partly in respect of scholars taught at the school, who are either resident in a workhouse or in an institution to which they have been sent by the guardians from a workhouse, or boarded out by the guardians.

[S. 3 rep. 2 Edw. 7. c. 42. ss. 25 (3), 27 (1); 3 Edw. 7. c. 24. s. 1; s. 4 rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 67. s. 134; s. 5 rep. 7 Edw. 7.c. 43. s. 17(1).]

Byelaws for compulsory attendance.

33 & 34 Vict. c. 75.

43 & 44 Vict. c. 23.

6.(1) In section seventy-four of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, and in section four of the Elementary Education Act, 1880 (which relate to byelaws for the attendance of children at school), fourteen years shall be substituted for thirteen years.

(2) The maximum penalty for the breach of a byelaw requiring the attendance of a child at an elementary school, or of an attendance order made under the Elementary Education Act, 1876, shall be twenty shillings, and accordingly twenty shillings shall be substituted for five shillings in section seventy-four of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, and in section twelve of the Elementary Education Act, 1876.

(3) The said section seventy-four shall have effect as if the sanction therein referred to were the sanction of the Board of Education instead of the sanction of Her Majesty in Council.

Amendment of 39 & 40 Vict. c. 79 as to standard of attendances.

7. In paragraph two of the First Schedule to the Elementary Education Act, 1876 (which relates to the standard of previous due attendance at a certified efficient school), three hundred and fifty shall be substituted for two hundred and fifty.

[S. 8 rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49. (S.L.R.).]

Short title.

9. This Act may be cited as the Elementary Education Act, 1900, and may be cited with the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 to 1893.

[Sched. rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49. (S.L.R.).]

[1 Short title, “The Elementary Education Act, 1900.” See s. 9.]