certificates authorising employment of, 609, 613;
employment of, 609, 613;
employment and education of, in factories and workshops, 275, 276,
281, 351, 352, 462-473;
when to be deemed to be employed by parents, 332;
penalty for illegal employment of, 277, 465. See also Employment of
Children;
when an order of justices for attendance of, at school, may be obtained,
286, 287; reasonable excuses for non-compliance with order, 287;
penalty on non-compliance without reasonable excuse, 290; com-
plaints on continuing non-compliance, 290; when may be sent to
industrial school on account of order not being complied with, 290;
detention of, at school for not doing home lessons illegal, 82, 185.
See also Bye-laws;
classes of, who may be sent to industrial schools under Industrial
Schools Acts, 114, 115; when liable to be sent to certified industrial
school, may be sent to a certified day industrial school, 298; con-
tributions by parents for, when sent to industrial school, 290, 299;
may be received into certified day industrial school on request of
parent and local authority without order, 299, 677, 681, 682, 698,
699. See also Order in Council and School Fees.
CHURCH DOORS, publication of notices on, 249, 282, 320.
CLERK TO THE GUARDIANS to be clerk to school attendance
committee of union, 320; duties of, as clerk to committee, 649, 650;
duties of, as to school fees of non-pauper children, 621, 622, 637,
638; duties of, as to expenses of school attendance committee
appointed by guardians, 650, 657; summoning officer for meeting for ap-
plication for school board, 492, 497; returning officer in school board
elections, 501, 508, 514; duty of, as to publication of notices, 249, 320.
CLERK OF SCHOOL BOARD, appointment of, 140; duties of, as re-
gards books and accounts and audit, 166, 169, 566-569, 573-577, 594-
599; appearance of, for school board in legal proceedings,199; authen-
tication of documents by signature of, 198; service of notices on, 198;
appointment of teacher as, 143.
CLERKS in school board elections, rate of payment for, 258.
CLOSING of schools on account of epidemic, 521, 525; claim of school-
master for loss through, 525.
COAL MINES, education of children employed in, 468.
CODE (1891) as to parliamentary grant, 517.
COMBINATION of school boards, 155, 156, 573.
COMMISSIONERS CLAUSES ACT, incorporation of clauses as to
mortgages, 161, 234, 455.
COMMON FUND, definition of, 254.
COMMON SCHOOL FUND, fee grant may be paid into, by managers
of two or more voluntary schools, 373.
COMPOSITION with creditors by member of school board, 127, 220.
COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE at school, bye-laws as to, 181-193,
230, 250-252, 305-307, 349-353, 558; appointment of officer to
enforce, 144, 311-313, 648, 649, 653, 655; penalty for non-com-
pliance with bye-laws as to, 182, 183, 251, 252, 322;
under acts regulating education of children employed in labour, 182,
275-278, 281-286, 287, 351, 352. 462-473. See also School Attend-
ance Committee;
of children in canal boats, 474-476.
COMPULSORY PURCHASE of land. See Lands.
CONFIRMATION of provisional orders of Education Department, 96,
98, 99; of orders as to elections, 231, 272.
CONSTITUTION of school boards, in boroughs, 67, 119, 127, 128,
271; in metropolis, 67, 145; in parishes not in boroughs or metro-
polis, 67, 119, 127, 128; in united school district, 152, 273.
CONTRACTS of school boards, 128, 134-140.
CONTRIBUTIONS by parent to cost of maintenance and training of
child in industrial school, 290; in certified day industrial school,
290, 299; when relief to be given by guardians for payment of, 299.
CONTRIBUTIONS from parliamentary grant. See Parliamentary
CONTRIBUTIONS to common fund for expenses of school attendance
committees appointed by guardians, 313–315, 657, 658.
CONTRIBUTIONS towards maintenance of children in industrial
schools by council of borough, guardians and sanitary authority, 347.
CONTRIBUTORY DISTRICTS, formation of, 154; election of mem-
bers for, 154; precepts for contributions of, 159, 160; subject to
jurisdiction of school attendance committees in whose districts they
are included, 154, 280, 306, 315.
CONVEYANCE of lands, form of, 101, 102, 440, 441.
COOKERY in schools, 520.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT in board schools, 81, 82; instructions
by Education Department to H.M. Inspectors as to, 81; liability of
teachers for caning boys on the hand, 81.
CORPORATION. See Borough.
CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT,
1883, 415-419.
CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT, 1852, 413, 414.
CORRUPT PRACTICES at elections, bribery, treating, undue in-
fluence and personation, 133, 134, 204, 206-208, 232, 233, 377-380,
413-420; disqualification by reason of, for voting at school board
election, 206, 395, 416-418; for being member of school board,
232, 233, 380; disqualification for election by reason of, at parlia-
mentary election, 125, 126; penalties for, 206-208, 401, 416-419;
prosecutions for, 400-403, 405; questioning election for, by elec-
tion petition, 133, 134, 421-433; avoidance of election for general
corruption, bribery, treating, or intimidation, 420. See also Illegal
COSTS of application and inquiry as to compulsory purchase of lands,
96; of public inquiry, 181. See also Expenses.
COUNCIL of borough, duty of, to make returns, 178; application by,
for school board, 76, 77, 222;
powers of, as to contribution to certified industrial school, 114; towards
maintenance of children in industrial schools, 347;
appointment by, of school attendance committee, 277; alteration by, of
number of members of committee, 316;
school attendance committee appointed by, constituted "local autho-
rity,” 277;
consent of, to incurring of expense and employment of officers by school
attendance committee, 313. See also Local Authority.
may petition for or against scheme of adjustment under Municipal
Corporation Act, 1882, 356; scheme may validate acts done by,
since date of charter, 356.
COURT of summary jurisdiction, definition of, 254;
may make order for production of child, 252; for attendance of child at
school, 251, 252, 286, 287; may on non-compliance with order
impose penalty or send child to industrial school, 290; may order
parent to contribute to maintenance of child in certified day industrial
school, 298, 299; may send to certified day industrial school
children liable to be sent to certified industrial school, 298; pro-
ceedings before, 210, 251-253, 322, 323.
CRIME, conviction of member of school board of, 128, 220.
DAY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, definition of, 298, 668; may be
certified by Secretary of State, 298; certificate of, may be withdrawn,
300. See also Certified Day Industrial School and Order in
Council.
DEATHS, duty of registrar as to furnishing local authority with returns
of, 309.
DEBTS of school board, loans for, 233-235.
DEBTS of guardians in respect of expenses of School Attendance Com-
mittee, time for payment of, 314, 315.
DECLARATION, STATUTORY, by parent as to age of child, 608,
DEFAULT of local authority for returns, 179; of local authority in
making bye-laws, 350; of managers and teachers of schools as to
returns, 180, 250.
rating authority, 147, 158, 159;
school board by failing to supply school accommodation, 76; to keep
schools efficient, 88; to provide additional school accommodation, 88;
to supply deficiency in free school accommodation, 371; by per-
mitting acts in contravention of regulations under which school is
required to be conducted, 83, 84; of school attendance committee,
310, 311;
proceedings of Education Department on, 171-175, 310, 311, 350.
DEFINITIONS of terms: metropolis, 61; borough, 61, 62, 271, 278;
parish, 62, 196, 240; person, 62; Education Department, 62; Her
Majesty's inspectors, 62; managers, 62; teacher, 62; child, 333;
attendance, 519, 520; average attendance, 375, 521; parent, 62,
275; elementary school, 62; guardians, 254; public elementary
school, 69, 70; certified efficient school, 298, 333; public school
accommodation, 67, 68, 371; industrial school, 114, 293; certified
day industrial school, 298, 668; schoolhouse, 62; school year, 375;
vestry, 62; ratepayer, 62, 65, 66, 124, 267; Factory Acts, 333;
local authority, 277, 318; parliamentary grant, 62; school fund,
156; union, 254; common fund, 254; court of summary jurisdiction,
254; Summary Jurisdiction Acts, 254; Secretary of State, 333; of
terms in order as to accounts, 577; of terms in orders as to school
fees of non-pauper children, 622, 633; of terms in orders as to
school attendance committees, 641, 653, 656.
DELEGATION OF POWERS of school board to managers, 83, 155,
570; of guardians as to fees of non-pauper children to committees,
636, 640.
DENISON'S ACT (18 & 19 Vict., c. 34), repeal of, 229; provisions sub-
stituted for, 230, 325, 326, 353.
DENOMINATIONAL catechisms and formularies not to be taught in
schools of school board, 79, 245.
DETACHED PART of parish when to be deemed a school district,
DETERMINATION of disputes. See Disputes.
DIARY. See Log Book.
DISALLOWANCE in accounts, appeal against, 166-169; exemption
from, of expenses sanctioned by Local Government Board, 167.
DISCONTINUANCE OF SCHOOLS by managers, 76, 77, 102-104,
548; by school board, 88.
DISEASE, infectious or contagious, closing of schools, 521, 525; liability
to schoolmaster for loss through closing school, 525.
DISPUTES, determination of, as to election of members of school board,
repeal of provision, 133; contravention by school board of regulations
for conduct of school, 83, 84; as to time-tables in public elementary
schools, 72; as to returns to school board, 250; as to expenses of
returning officers, 257-259.
DISQUALIFICATION for voting at school board election, 120-123,
380, 395, 416-418.
DISQUALIFICATION of members of school board not to vitiate pro-
ceedings, 128;
by appointment as officer of board or receiving profits of work, &c.,
134-140; by corrupt or illegal practices at election, 232, 233, 380,
383, 384, 392, 405, 406; by corrupt or illegal practices in parliamen-
tary and municipal elections, 125, 126; by bankruptcy, &c., 127,
filling up of casual vacancy caused by, 332, 342, 343.
DISSOLUTION of school board, 329, 330; of school board in default,
175; united school district, 151; evidence of, 152.
DISTRICT. See School District.
DISTRICT or workhouse schools, regulations as to certificates for
children in, 611; order of Local Government Board as to register of
attendance for, 663.
DISTRICT RELIEF COMMITTEES, application to, for payment of
fees of non pauper-children, 636.
DIVISIONS of metropolis, 145, 147, 148, 228, 359.
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ACT, application of, 198, 332.
DOCUMENTS, authentication of, 198, 199; production of, at audit,
166, 169, 574, 577;
connected with elections and resolutions for school boards, preservation
of, 481, 488, 496, 500, 501, 506, 512, 516.
DRAWING, provisions of New Code as to instruction in, 522.
DUTIES of officers of school boards, 140; as to books and accounts,
166, 169, 566-575, 577, 594;
of inquiry officers, 619-622, 637, 641;
of school attendance officers, 650; of clerk to guardians as clerk to
school attendance committee, 649, 650, 657.
DUTIES of school boards and school attendance committees as local
authorities. See Local Authority.
DUTY of parent to educate child, declaration as to, 275.
EDUCATION CODE ACT, 1890, 360.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT-definition of term, 62;
to require returns as to school accommodation, pay expenses incident to
returns, appoint officers to inquire as to returns, 73, 176, 178-180, 248;
to determine as to sufficiency of public school accommodation, 67–69,
73-75, 78, 88, 146, 149, 150; as to deficiency of free school accom-
modation, 371; publish notice of decision, 74; grant public inquiry
as to decision, 74, 75; publish final notice of decision, 75; direct
formation of school boards, 75, 76, 240;,
proceedings of, upon returns after first year, 78;
may form school board without notices and inquiry, 76, 77, 240; form
or dissolve united school district, 149-153, 240; make orders as to
constitution of united school districts, 272, 273; unite small parishes
in united school district for election and other purposes, 153; sanction
combination of school boards, 155, 156; issue order authorising com-
pulsory purchase of land, 95; obtain Act confirming order, 96;
make orders as to expenses of inquiries as to proposed purchase, 96;
order contributions by one district towards school of another district,
154; alter or revoke order, 155; appoint school board when school
board are in default, 171, 172; dissolve school board, 329, 330;
dissolve school board in default, 175; as to returns by managers of
voluntary schools, 250; consent to transfer of voluntary school to
school board, 102-104; 548; consent to transfer of school by school
board, 112, 113; approve scheme under Endowed Schools Act, 193;
appoint person to hold, and make order as to costs of public inquiry,
95, 96, 180, 181; approve bye-laws as to compulsory attendance,
181, 182, 306, 307; approve scale of fees in schools of school boards,
84; determine by regulations, time and mode of paying fee grant,
362; may reduce fee grant, on failure to comply with conditions of
Act, 362; may approve of charge and increase of fees when sufficient
free school accommodation supplied, 369; to report to Parliament all
cases of sanction or refusal of imposition or augmentation of fees,
369; may reduce fee grant by amount received from fees so charged
or increased, 369; vary regulations as to certificates of proficiency
and previous due attendance at school, 308, 608; authorise urban
sanitary authority to appoint school attendance committee, or persons
to act with committee appointed by guardians, 317, 318; make bye-
laws in default of local authority, 350;
sanction loans to school boards, 234, 331;
declare detached part of parish a separate parish, 240, 241;
give directions as to publication of notices, 188, 249;
requisition of, to provide school accommodation, 74-76, 78, 88, 146;
to keep schools efficient, 88; to provide additional school accom-
modation, 88; to provide free school accommodation, 371;
local authority to report to, infraction of conscience clause in public
elementary school, 278; to furnish returns to, 176-179, 211, 331; to
send to, copy of notice as to exception to prohibition of employment
of children for operations of husbandry and ingathering of crops, 282;
powers of, in case of local authority failing to fulfil duty, 310, 311, 350;
consent of, not required to provision of and borrowing for industrial
schools by school boards, 297, 346;
repealed provision as to determining disputes at elections by, 133;
grants by. See Parliamentary Grant;
form of bye-laws issued by, 558;
orders of, as to boundaries of divisions of metropolis, 147, 148, 358,
359; number of members to be elected for divisions of metropolis,
145, 147;
regulations of, as to applications for school boards, parishes, 491;
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