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school attendance committee appointing it, the provisions of the third schedule of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, with reference to proceedings of managers appointed by a school board, shall apply to the proceedings of a school attendance committee and a local committee under this Act, as if the body appointing the committee were a school board.

For provisions referred to in the third schedule of the Education Act, 1870, see p. 224.

The Local Government Board by their order of the 14th April, 1877 (p. 647), have prescribed regulations with regard to the meetings of school attendance committees appointed by guardians. The committee are to meet for the despatch of business, and from time to time, as occasion may require, make such regulations with respect to the summoning, notice, place, management, and adjournment of such meetings, and generally with respect to the transaction and management of business as they think fit. The proceedings of the committee are to be duly recorded in a minute book to be kept by their clerk. At each meeting the minutes of the last preceding meeting are to be read to the committee, and the minutes are to be signed by the chairman presiding at the meeting at which the same are read. No business involving the employment or payment of any officer, any new expense, or any payment (except the ordinary periodical payments), or any business which under the Elementary Education Acts requires the consent of the Education Department is to be transacted at any meeting of the committee, unless notice in writing of the general nature of the business has been sent to every member of the committee four days at least before the meeting.

(4.) Any casual vacancy in a school attendance committee or local committee may be filled up by the body who appointed such committee.

(5.) A school attendance committee shall continue in office until the first meeting of the council or guardians appointing it after the next annual election of councillors and guardians, and thereafter until the new committee is appointed.

(6.) A committee appointed by guardians shall be appointed at the first meeting after the annual election of guardians, or some other meeting fixed with the approval of the Local Government Board for the purpose.

See notes to sec. 7, p. 278.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Rule as to Election of School Board.

If any casual vacancy in the office of a member of a school board occurs by death, resignation, disqualification

or otherwise, such vacancy may be filled by the remaining members of the school board, if a quorum, at a special meeting of the board called for the purpose.

The quorum is such number of members not less than three, except in the metropolis, where it is to be not less than nine, as may be fixed by the school board.

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ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOLS) ACT, 1879.

(42 & 43 VICT., C. 48.)

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RESPECTING THE POWERS OF SCHOOL BOARDS IN RELATION TO INDUSTRIAL

SCHOOLS,

[11th August, 1879.]

WHEREAS under the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873, and the Elementary Education Act, 1876, a school board have power, with the consent of one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, to establish, build, and maintain industrial schools, and to spread the payment of the expense of such establishment and building over a number of years not exceeding fifty, and to borrow money for that purpose:

And whereas a school board, under the said Acts, have the same power as is given to a prison authority by section twelve of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, to contribute money towards the alteration, enlargement, or rebuilding of an industrial school, or towards the establishment or building of an industrial school, or towards the purchase of land required for the use or for the site of an industrial school:

And whereas under the Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act, 1872, section 12 of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, is extended to authorise the prison authority themselves to undertake anything towards which they are authorised by that section to contribute:

And whereas doubts have arisen whether a school board have power to undertake themselves anything towards which they are authorised as above mentioned to contribute, or have power to spread the payment of the amount of any such contribution, or of the cost of any such undertaking, over a number of years, and to borrow money for that purpose, and it is expedient to remove such doubts:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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:

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Elementary Education (Industrial Schools) Act, 1879.

This Act and the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873, and the Elementary Education Act, 1876, may be cited together as the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 to 1879.

Extension to School Board.

2. A school board shall have power themselves to undertake anything towards which they are authorised by the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, as applied by the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873, and the Elementary Education Act, 1876, or any of them, to contribute, subject nevertheless to the like consent as is required in the case of any such contribution.

The Elementary Education Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict., c. 75, ante), by sec. 27, provides that a school board shall have the same power of contributing money in the case of an industrial school as is given to a prison authority by sec. 12 of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866.

The Industrial Schools Act, 1866, by sec. 12, provides as follows:"In England a prison authority may from time to time contribute such sums of money, and on such conditions as they think fit, towards the alteration, enlargement, or rebuilding of a certified industrial school; or towards the support of the inmates of such a school; or towards the management of such a school; or towards the establishment or building of a school intended to be a certified industrial school; or towards the purchase of land required either for the use of an existing certified industrial school, or for the site of a school intended to be a certified industrial school: Provided,—

"First. That not less than two months' previous notice of the intention of the prison authority to take into consideration the making of such contribution at a time and place to be mentioned in such notice, be given by advertisement in some one or more public newspaper or newspapers circulated within the district of the county or borough, and also in the manner in which notices relating to business to be transacted by the prison authority are usually given.

"Secondly. That where the prison authority is the council of a borough the order for the contribution be made at a special meeting of the council.

"Thirdly. That where the contribution is for alteration, enlargement, rebuilding, establishment, or building of a school or intended school, or for purchase of land, the approval of the Secretary of State be previously given for that alteration, enlargement, rebuilding, establishment, building or purchase."

As regards the first proviso in the section above quoted, it is to be observed that the Elementary Education Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict., c. 86, s. 14), provides that where a school board exercise the power of a prison authority, not less than fourteen days', instead of not less than two months', previous notice shall be given of the intention of the school board to take into consideration the making of the contribution.

The effect of the new enactment is that, subject to the foregoing provisions as to notice and consent, a school board may themselves undertake anything towards which they were authorised to contribute by the Industrial Schools Act, as applied to them by the Elementary Education Acts.

It is to be observed that the powers conferred on a school board by this section apply to a certified day industrial school as well as to a certified industrial school. (See sec. 3 of this Act.) See also sec. 16 (1) of the Elementary Education Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict., c, 75), as to the powers of a school board in relation to a certified day industrial school.

With respect to the powers of a school board to establish, build and maintain certified industrial schools and certified day industrial schools, see Elementary Education Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict., c. 75), sec. 28, and Elementary Education Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict., c. 79), sec. 15, ante.

Power of School Board to borrow for Contribution towards, or undertaking Cost of enlarging, etc., an Industrial School.

3. Where a school board resolve to contribute any sum of money towards, or to undertake the cost of the alteration, enlargement, or rebuilding, but not of the furnishing, of an industrial school, or the establishment or building, but not of the furnishing, of a school intended to be an industrial school, or the purchase of land required either for the use of an existing industrial school, or for the site of a school intended to be an industrial school, such school board, with the consent of one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, shall have the same power of spreading the payment of the sums so contributed, or of the cost of such undertaking, over a number of years, and of borrowing money for that purpose, as they have in the case where they resolve to establish an industrial school; and the provisions of the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873, and the Elementary Education Act, 1876, and the Public Works Loans Act, 1875, shall apply accordingly.

For the purposes of this Act an industrial school means a certified industrial school and a certified day industrial school.

The Elementary Education Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict., c. 75), sec. 28, and the Elementary Education Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict., c. 79), sec. 15, empower a school board, with the consent of one of Her Majesty's

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