School Attendance Act, 1926

Extension of application of this Act.

24.—(1) The Minister may by order from time to time apply the provisions of this Act to children or any class of children who have attained the age of fourteen years and have not attained the age of sixteen years.

(2) The Minister may by and in any order made by him under this section do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) limit the application of the order to any particular part of Saorstát Eireann;

(b) limit the application of the order to attendance at school for instruction in one or more specified subjects;

(c) except any children or class of children from the operation of the order;

(d) except any of the provisions of this Act from the operation of the order;

(e) make such adaptations and modifications of the provisions of this Act in their application to the children or class of children to which the order relates as the Minister shall think necessary for the purposes of such application;

(f) extend, restrict, amend, or revoke any previous order made under this section.

(3) Whenever the Minister makes an order under this section applying the provisions of this Act to children or any class of children authorised by this section, the provisions of this Act shall apply to such children or class of children subject to and in accordance with the terms of the order for so long as the order continues in force.

(4) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat annulling such order, such order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such order.