School Attendance Act, 1926

Principal teachers to make certain returns, etc.

15.—(1) The principal teacher of every national and other suitable school at which any children to whom this Act applies are enrolled or attending shall communicate at the prescribed times and in the prescribed manner to the respective enforcing authorities of the several school attendance areas in which such children respectively reside the prescribed particulars of every such child who is absent from such school and the prescribed particulars of such absences.

(2) The principal teacher of every national or other suitable school shall on demand supply in the prescribed form to any enforcing authority the respective ages as stated in the school registers of all or any of the children attending such school and the prescribed particulars of the attendances at and absences from such school of all or any of those children who are children to whom this Act applies.

(3) When a child to whom this Act applies is removed from a national or other suitable school, the principal teacher of such school shall on demand give to the parent of such child a certificate in the prescribed form stating the period during which such child was attending such school, the number of attendances and absences of such child at or from such school during the prescribed portion of such period, and the class in the school in which the child was placed for instruction immediately before his removal from the school, and the parent of the child shall exhibit such certificate to the principal teacher of any national or other suitable school to which he applies for the admission of the child.

(4) The principal teacher of every national or other suitable school shall, at the beginning of every quarter commencing on the 1st day of January, the 1st day of April, the 1st day of July, or the 1st day of October, furnish to the Secretary of the Juvenile Advisory Committee for the place where the school is situate or, if there is no such committee, to the nearest local officer of the Minister for Industry and Commerce the names and addresses of all children attending the school who will attain the age of fourteen years during such quarter.