Vocational Education Act, 1930

Obligation to attend courses in technical education.

84.—(1) Every person to whom this Part of this Act applies and who is employed in a district to which this Part of this Act applies at a trade which is a designated trade in such district shall attend the course of instruction provided for the purposes of such trade under this Part of this Act in such district by the vocational education committee.

(2) If any person to whom this Part of this Act applies and who is employed in a district to which this Part of this Act applies at a trade which is a designated trade in such district fails to attend the course of instruction which he is required by this section to attend, he shall, unless he satisfies the court that such failure was due to sickness or any other unavoidable cause, be guilty of an offence under this section and be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.

(3) If the parent of a person to whom this Part of this Act applies and who is employed in a district to which this Part of this Act applies at a trade which is a designated trade in such district has conduced to or connived at the failure of such person to attend the course of instruction which he is required by this section to attend, such parent shall, unless he satisfies the court that such failure was due to sickness or other unavoidable cause not occasioned by such parent, be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.