SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

STANDARDS OF PROFICIENCY IN READING, WRITING, AND ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC AND PREVIOUS DUE ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL.

For the Purpose of Employment.1

(1.) The standard of proficiency in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic for the purpose of a certificate under this Act enabling a child to be employed shall be— (a.) The standard of reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic fixed by standard four of the Code of 1876, or any higher standard.

Standard four of the Code of 1876, so far as regards reading, writing and arithmetic, is similar to standard four of the new Code, which will be found in the Appendix, pp. 528-530.

As to the arrangements for the examinations for certificates of proficiency and the conditions on which these certificates will be granted, see Regulations of Education Department, dated 12th April, 1883 (p. 609).

(2.) The standard of previous due attendance at a certified efficient school for the purpose of a certificate under this Act enabling a child to be employed shall be two hundred and fifty attendances after five years of age in not more than two schools during each year for five years, whether consecutive or not.

As to definition of "attendances," see Rule II in this schedule. For definition of "certified efficient school," see secs. 16 and 48. With respect to the arrangements for obtaining certificates of school attendance, see Regulations of Education Department, dated 12th April, 1883, pp. 610, 613. These Regulations also provide for the granting of "labour certificates" in the cases of children who are qualified for employment.

1 As to the provisions with reference to standards of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic, and previous due attendance at school, for the purpose of employment, see sec. 5, p. 275.

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(3.) During the four years next after the commencement of this Act the standards for the purpose of enabling a child to be employed shall, instead of the foregoing standards, be those shown in the following table:

(a.) In the case of a school district in which for not less than three years before the commencement of this Act bye-laws have been in force requiring, as a condition of total or partial exemption of a child from attendance at school, that such child must have passed a standard of proficiency corresponding to the fourth standard of the Code of 1876, or any higher standard, the same or a corresponding standard of proficiency (but not exceeding the standard which, under this schedule, will be required after four years from the commencement of this Act) shall be required for the purpose of a certificate under this Act enabling a child to be employed. (b.) Where a child has been lawfully taken into employment in any year in consequence of having obtained a certificate in accordance with the above table, such child may in any subsequent year be taken into employment without any further certificate, notwithstanding that under the table a certificate requiring a higher standard is required for that year.

Clause 3, which is printed in italics, was repealed from the 1st of January, 1881, by the 43 & 44 Vict., c. 23, sec. 6, post.

For the Purpose of the Payment of Fees.

(4.) The standard of proficiency in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic for the purpose of a certificate under this Act, with a view to allow of the payment of fees by the Education Department, shall be the standard of reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic fixed by standard four of the Code of 1876, or such higher standard as may be from time to time fixed by the Education Department, and shall include any standard higher than the one fixed by this rule, or than the one for the time being fixed by the Education Department. (1)

(5.) The standard of previous due attendance at a public elementary school for the purpose of a certificate under this Act, with a view to allow of the payment of fees by the Education Department, shall be three hundred and fifty attendances after five years of age in not more than two schools during each year for five years, or such larger number of attendances as may be for the time being fixed by the Education Department. (1)

(1) These provisions refer to the conditions on which contributions might be made under sec. 18 of this Act for payment of fees of children who obtained certain certificates. That section, it will be observed, referred to the cases in which the certificates therein provided for were obtained "during the first five years after the commencement of this Act” (i.e. during the five years ended on the 1st January, 1882), “or any further period which Her Majesty may from time to time fix by Order in Council." The period of five years after the commencement of the Act was not extended by an Order in Council, and the section is now repealed by sec. 11 of the 54 & 55 Vict., c. 56.

(6.) Provided that in each of the four years next after the commencement of this Act the standard of previous due attendance shall, in lieu of the foregoing standard, be that shown in the following table:

Rule 6 was repealed from the 1st of January, 1881, by the 43 & 44 Vict., c. 23, sec. 6, post.

(7.) The Education Department may from time to time by order make, and when made revoke and vary, such regulations and conditions in relation to the payment of fees under this Act by that Department as they may think expedient. (1)

(8.) The order shall provide that not more than ten per cent. of the children presented for examination in a public elementary school shall obtain in the same year certificates entitling them to the payment of fees, and that if the children qualified to obtain such certificates exceed the said percentage, those children who have attended the greatest number of times shall have the preference. (1)

(9.) The order may make the continuance of the payment dependent upon the fulfilment of conditions, and shall provide that the continuance of the payment shall be conditional upon the child attending the school for not less than three hundred and fifty attendances in each year, and obtaining at the end of each year a certificate of proficiency in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic according to a standard higher than the standard according to which it obtained the previous certificate. (1)

(10.) The order shall further provide that the school, by previous due attendance at which the child was qualified for obtaining the payment of fees, and the school, the fees at which are paid by the Education Department, shall be a school or department of a school, at which the ordinary payment in respect of the instruction of each scholar does not exceed sixpence a week. (1)

(1) With regard to the provisions as to the payment of fees of children who obtain certain certificates, see note to rules 4 and 5 in this schedule.

Miscellaneous.

(11.) Attendance for the purpose of this schedule means an attendance as defined by the Code of 1876, and where the attendance is at a certified day industrial school includes such attendance as may be from time to time directed for the purpose by a Secretary of State, and where the attendance is at a workhouse school includes such attendance as may be from time to time directed for the pose by the Local Government Board.

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As to provision of Code of 1890 as to "attendances," see Appendix, PP. 519, 520.

For direction of the Secretary of State as to what shall be deemed an attendance at a certified day industrial school, see p. 706.

The Local Government Board have issued an Order dated the 27th of October, 1877, directing what shall be deemed "an attendance" for the purpose of this schedule in the case of a child in a workhouse school. The Board have also issued an Order prescribing a form of Attendance Register for workhouse schools. These Orders will be found in the Appendix, pp. 660, 663.

(12.) The Code of 1876 in this schedule means the Code of the Minutes of the Education Department made in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six with respect to the parliamentary grant to public elementary schools in England, and in the case of a school in Scotland means the Code of the Minutes of the Scotch Education Department made in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six with respect to the parliamentary grant to elementary schools.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Rules as to a Local Committee.

(1.) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the school attendance committee may from time to time add to or diminish the number of members, or change the members of any local committee appointed by them, or may dissolve any such committee.

For provisions of the Act as to appointment of local committees, see

sec. 32.

A local committee would appear to have no power to appoint an officer to aid them in their duties.

(2.) A local committee shall, unless the school attendance committee appointing them otherwise direct, continue in office until the first meeting of that committee after the next annual appointment thereof, and thereafter until a new local committee is appointed.

Rules as to School Attendance Committee and
Local Committee.

(3.) Subject to any regulations made in the case of a school attendance committee by the council or guardians appointing it, and in the case of a local committee by the