this act specially excepted) be employed on Sunday in a factory or workshop.

4-Holidays.

22. The occupier of a factory or of a workshop shall (save as in this act specially excepted) allow to every child, young person and woman employed therein the following holidays; that is to say

(1). The whole of Christmas Day, and the whole of Good Friday, or if it is so specified by the occupier in the notice affixed in the factory or workshop, of the next public holiday under the Holidays Extension Act, 1875; and in addition

(2). Eight half holidays in every year, but a whole holiday may be allowed in lieu of any two such half holidays; and

(3). At least half of said half holidays or whole holidays shall be allowed between the fifteenth day of March and the first day of October in every year; and

(4). Cessation from work shall not be deemed to be a half holiday or whole holiday, unless a notice of the halt holiday or whole holiday has been affixed in the factory or workshop for at least the whole period of employment of young persons and women on the last previous workday but one; and

(5). A half holiday shall comprise at least one-half of the period of employment for young persons and women on some day other than Saturday.

A child, young person, or woman who—

(a). on a whole holiday fixed by or in pursuance of this section for a factory or workshop is employed in the factory or workshop, or

(b) on a half holiday fixed in pursuance of this section for a factory or workshop is employed in the factory or workshop during the portion of the period of employment assigned for such half holiday, shall be deemed to be employed contrary to the provisions of this act.

If in a factory or workshop such whole holidays or half holidays as required by this section are not fixed in conformity therewith, the occupier of the factory or workshop shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5.

5-Education of Children.

23. The parent of a child employed in a factory or in a workshop shall cause that child to attend some recognized efficient school (which school may be selected by such parent), as follows:

(1). The child, when employed in a morning or afternoon set, shall in every week, during any part of which he is so employed, be caused to attend on each work day for at least one attendance; and

(2). The child, when employed on the alternate day system, shall on each work day preceding each day of employment in the factory or workshop be caused to attend for at least two attendances;

(3). An attendance for the purpose of this section shall be an attendance as defined for the time being by a secretary of state with the consent of the Education Department, and be between the hours of eight in the morning and six in the evening.

Provided that

(a). A child shall not be required by this act to attend school on Saturday, or on a holiday or half holiday allowed under this act in the factory or workshop in which the child is employed; and

(b). The non-attendance of the child shall be excused on every day on which he is certified by the teacher of the school to have been prevented from attending by sickness or other unavoidable cause, also when the school is closed during the ordinary holidays or for any other temporary cause, and

(c). Where there is not within the distance of two miles, measured according to the nearest road, from the residence of the child a recognized efficient school which the child can attend, attendance at a school temporarily, approved in writing by an inspector under this act, although not a recognized efficient school, shall for the purposes of this act be deemed attendance at a recognized efficient school until such recognized efficient school as aforesaid is established, and with a view to such establishment the inspector shall immediately report to the Education Department every case of the approval of a school by him under this section.

A child who has not in any week attended school for all the attendances required by this section shall not be employed in the

following week until he has attended school for the deficient number of attendances.

The Education Department shall from time to time, by the publication of lists or by notices or otherwise, as they think expedient, provide for giving to all persons interested information of the schools in each school district which are recognized efficient schools.

24. The occupier of a factory or workshop in which a child is employed shall on Monday in every week (after the first week in which such child began to work therein), or on some other day appointed for that purpose by an inspector, obtain from the teacher of the recognized efficient school attended by the child, a certificate, according to the prescribed form and directions, respecting the at*tendance of such child at school in accordance with this act.

The employment of a child without obtaining such certificate as is required by this section shall be deemed to be employment of a child contrary to the provisions of this act.

The occupier shall keep every such certificate for two months after the date thereof, if the child so long continues to be employed in his factory or his workshop, and shall produce the same to an inspector when required during that period.

25. The board authority or persons who manage a recognized efficient school attended by a child employed in a factory or workshop, or some person authorized by such board authority or person, may apply in writing to the occupier of the factory or workshop to pay a weekly sum specified in the application, not exceeding threepence, and not exceeding one-twelfth part of the wages of the child, and after that application the occupier, so long as he employs the child, shall be liable to pay to the applicants, while the child attends their school, the said weekly sum, and the sum may be recovered as a debt, and the occupier may deduct the sum so paid by him from the wages payable for the services of the child.

26. When a child of the age of thirteen years has obtained from a person authorized by the Education Department a certificate of having attained such standard of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic or such standard of previous due attendance at a certified efficient school, as hereinafter mentioned, that child shall be deemed to be a young person for the purposes of this act.

The standards of proficiency and due attendance for the purposes of this section, shall be such as may be from time to time fixed for the purposes of this act by secretary of state, with the consent of the Educational Department, and the standards so fixed shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall not have effect until the expiration of at least six months after such publication.

Attendance at a certified day industrial school shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be attendance at a certified efficient school.

6-Certificates of Fitness for Employment.

27. In a factory a child or a young person under the age of sixteen years shall not be employed for more than seven, or if the certifying surgeon for the district resides more than three miles from the factory, thirteen work days, unless the occupier of the factory has obtained a certificate, in the prescribed form, of the fitness of said child or young person for employment in that factory.

A certificate of fitness for employment for the purposes of this act shall be granted by the certifying surgeon for the district, and shall be to the effect that he is satisfied, by the production of a certificate of birth or other sufficient evidence, that the person named in the certificate of fitness is of the age therein specified, and has been personally examined by him, and is not incapacitated by disease or bodily informity for working daily for the time allowed by law in the factory named in the certificate.

28. In order to enable occupiers of workshops to better secure the observance of this act, and prevent the employment in their workshops of children and young persons under the age of sixteen years who are unfitted for that employment, an occupier of a workshop is hereby authorized to obtain if he thinks fit, from the certifying surgeon for the district, certificates of the fitness of children and of young persons under the age of sixteen years for employment in his workshop, in like manner as of that workshop were a factory, and the certifying surgeon shall examine the children and young persons, and grant certificates accordingly.

29. Where an inspector is of opinion that a child or a young person under the age of sixteen years is by disease or bodily infirmity incapacitated for working daily for the time allowed by

law in the factory or workshop in which he is employed, he may serve written notice thereof on the occupier of the factory or workshop requiring that the employment of such child or young person be discontinued from the period named therein, not being less than one nor more than seven days after the service of such notice, and the occupier shall not continue after the period named in such notice to employ such child or young person (notwithstanding a certificate of fitness has been previously obtained for such child or young person), unless the certifying surgeon for the district has, after the service of the notice, personally examined such child or young person, and has certified that such child or young person is not so incapacitated as aforesaid.

30. All factories and workshops, in the occupation of the same occupier, and in the district of the same certifying surgeon, or any of them, may be be named in the certificate of fitness for employment, if the surgeon is of opinion that he can truly give the certificate for employment therein.

The certificate of birth (which may be produced to a certifying surgeon) shall either be a certified copy of the entry in the register of births, kept in pursuance of the acts relating to the registration of births, of the birth of the child or young person (whether such copy be obtained in pursuance of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, or otherwise), or be a certificate from a local, authority within the meaning of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, to the effect that it appears from the returns transmitted, to such authority in pursuance of the said act by the register of births and deaths that the child was born at the date named in the certificate.

When a certificate of fitness for employment is to the effect that the certifying surgeon has been satisfied of the age of a child or young person by evidence other than the production of a certificate of birth, an inspector may, by notice in writing, annul the surgeon's certificate, if he has reasonable cause to believe that the real age of the child or young person named in it is less than that mentioned in the certificate, and thereupon that certificate shall be of no avail. for the purposes of this act.

When a child becomes a young person a fresh certificate of fitness must be obtained.

The occupier shall, when required, produce to an inspector at the