Elementary Education (Fee Grant) Act, 1916

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (FEE GRANT) ACT 1916

CHAPTER XXXV.

An Act to alter the Limitation on the Ages of Children in respect of whom a Fee Grant is payable. [17th August 1916.]

Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Fee grant payable in respect of children of the age of fifteen and upwards.

54 & 55 Vict. c. 56.

1. The Elementary Education Act, 1891, which provides for the payment of the fee grant, shall have effect and shall, as from the commencement of every school year current at the passing of this Act, be deemed to have had effect as if the payment of the grant in respect of children of the age of fifteen and upwards were not excluded, and accordingly the words “and under fifteen wherever they occur in that Act shall be repealed.

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2. This Act may be cited as the Elementary Education (Fee Grant) Act, 1916, and the Education Acts, 1870 to 1914, and this Act may be cited together as the Education Acts, 1870 to 1916.