united districts, 497; boroughs, triennial elections, 485; first elections,
477; parishes, first elections, 501; triennial elections, 508; united
districts, first elections, 514; united and contributory districts,
triennial elections, 514, 515; as to fee grant, 364, 365. See also
Elections;
Acts confirming provisional orders of, 96, 98, 99 ;
minute of, as to time-tables in public elementary schools, 71, 72, 112,
546; as to transfer of schools to school boards, 105, 548;
minutes of, as to parliamentary grants, 517;
instructions of, as to order of accounts, 594; as to corporal punishment,
81; as to home lessons, 82;
rules and instructions of, as to certified efficient schools, 603-607, 611;
when to be substituted for Charity Commissioners under Charitable
Trusts Acts, 102, 196;
confirmation of orders of, 231, 272; evidence of orders of, 198, 332;
effect of requisitions of, 199, 332;
reports of, 175, 183, 215, 369;
regulations of, as to certificates of proficiency, marine schools, 611; in
workhouse schools, 611;
scheme under Municipal Corporations Act, 1862, to be referred to, if
affecting school boards, 356.
See also Regulations of Education Department.
ELECTION of school board-
powers of Education Department to prescribe regulations as to, 217,
231, 258-267;
in metropolis, 145, 146, 148, 222, 223; in boroughs, 119, 131, 132,
217-221, 231, 258-267, 477-490; in Oxford, 210;
in parishes not in boroughs or metropolis, 119, 131, 132, 217-221, 231,
258-267, 501-513; in Wenlock, 271; in part of parish outside of
borough, 196; in united school district, 152, 153, 272, 273, 514; in
small parishes in united school district combined for purposes of
election, 153; of members of school board for contributory district,
154, 514, 515; to fill casual vacancies, 332, 342, 343;
expenses of returning officer in, 257-259, 504;
confirmation of orders as to, 231, 272;
rules and orders as to boroughs, 477, 485; parishes, 501, 508; united
districts, 514;
number of members to be elected in boroughs and parishes not in
metropolis, 131; in metropolis, 145, 147;
number and distribution of votes in, 119, 146;
period within which election may be questioned, 233;
proceedings in case of failure of, 132, 133, 171, 172, 218, 223;
in place of board dissolved by Education Department, 175; of school
board appointed by Education Department, 171, 172;
defects in, not to vitiate proceedings of school board, 128;
inspection of ballot papers after, 265, 266;
application to, of provisions of the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and
Illegal Practices) Act, 1884, and Part 4 of the Municipal Corporations
Act, 1882, 133, 134, 408, 412, 419;
offences in respect of nomination papers, ballot papers, and ballot boxes,
202-204; infringement of secrecy in elections, 203; misconduct in
elections, 203, 204; obstructing elections, 202; personation of voter,
201, 202, 204-206, 415, 416, 419, 420; making incorrect return of
election, 201; corrupt practices at elections, bribery, treating, undue
influence, personation, 133, 134, 204, 206-208, 232, 233, 377-380,
413-415, 416, 419, 420; illegal practices at elections, illegal payment,
employment and hiring, &c., 208-210, 381-395;
disqualifications for voting in, 120-123, 380, 395, 416-418;
questioning of, by election petition, 133, 134, 398-404, 421-433;
vacancies created by decision of election court to be filled by a new
election, 409; avoidance of election for extensive illegal practices, &c.,
392; for general corruption, bribery, treating, or intimidation, 420;
ELECTION PETITION, questioning school board election by, 133,
134, 421-433; proceedings on, 398–404.
ELECTION, PARLIAMENTARY, use of public elementary school for
poll in, 90.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT (1870), Amendment Act, 1873,
229; Elementary Education (Orders) Act, 1874, 272.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT, 1876, 274;
short title of, 274; extent of, 274; application of, to Scotland, 274,
336: construction of, with other enactments, 334, 335; publication
of provisions of, by local authority, 277.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS) ACT,
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT, 1880, 349.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT, 1891, 362.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, definition of, 62;
when managers of, may transfer school to school board, 102-104, 548;
transfer of endowment of, to school board, 104, 193, 244, 245;
re-transfer of, by school board, to managers, 112, 113;
See also Public Elementary School.
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN, general restrictions as to, 275-278,
286, 287, 351, 352, 462, 463, 467; temporary modification, 335; ex-
ceptions to restrictions, when certificate of proficiency or previous
due attendance at school has been obtained, 275, 276, 464; certificates
for authorising, 609, 613; when child is employed and attending
school under Factory Acts or bye-laws, 275, 276, 350, 352; when no
public elementary school open within certain distance from residence
of child, 281; when employment is during school holidays, or when
school is not open, or otherwise when instruction of child not inter-
fered with, 281; when prohibition is suspended by local authority for
operations of husbandry and ingathering of crops, 282;
saving for children employed at passing of, or in accordance with, Act
of 1876, 335, 350, 352;
when child is to be deemed to be employed by parent, 332;
in factories and workshops, 275, 276, 281, 351, 352, 462-467;
provisions in previous Acts as to, not derogated from by Act of 1876,
335:
penalty for illegal, 277, 352, 465; enforcement of provisions as to, 277,
278; in factories, workshops and mines, 277, 278; order for entry
on premises when child believed to be illegally employed, 312;
proceedings when agent or workman has illegally employed child, 323,
324; when child has been employed on false representation of parent,
324; exemption from, when employer has acted in good faith,
ENDOWED SCHOOLS ACTS, Education Department may approve
scheme under, 193.
ENDOWMENTS of schools, application of Endowed Schools Act to,
193-195; transfer of, by managers of school to school board,
ENDOWMENTS, powers of school board to accept, 104, 193, 244, 245.
ESTIMATES of expenses of school attendance committees, 650, 657.
EVENING SCHOOLS, elementary education not to be condition of
grant to, 360; fee grant not payable to, 362.
EVIDENCE of proceedings of school board, 128; orders of Education
Department, 198, 332; formation of contributory district, 155;
formation or dissolution of united school district, 152;
in legal proceedings for offences and penalties, 252, 322.
EXAMINATION of children attending school, 70, 195, 609, 611;
of children, for purposes of parliamentary grant, 523, 524; examination
schedules, 528-530;
of children for certificates of proficiency, 609.
EXEMPTION, NON-, of public elementary schools, certified industrial
schools, reformatory schools, ragged schools, and Sunday schools from
assessment to poor-rate, 91–93.
EXEMPTIONS from attending school. See Employment of Children.
EX-OFFICIO GUARDIANS, to be elected members of school attend-
ance committee in unions, 277.
EXPENSES of school board, mode of providing for, 156-161.
EXPENSES, apportionment of, in united and contributory school
districts, 159, 160;
of school board for London, apportionment of 147, 246; powers for
obtaining payment of contributions to, 147;
of school board appointed by Education Department, 174, 175;
non-compliance with precept for payment of, 158-161;
of school attendance committees appointed by councils and guardians,
and mode of raising amount, 313, 317, 320, 650, 657-659; time for
payment of, by guardians, 314, 315;
of school attendance committees appointed by urban sanitary authority
and mode of raising amount, 317;
of school attendance committee appointed by Education Department
on default of local authority, 311;
of contributions by council, guardians or sanitary authority, towards
maintenance of children in industrial schools, 347;
mode of charging fees paid by guardians for children of non-paupers,
321, 322, 621-624;
mode of charging relief given to parents for payment of contribution
ordered in respect of child in certified day industrial school,
of local authority, if sanctioned by Local Government Board, exempt
from disallowance by district auditor, 167;
of returns of births and deaths, 309, 310;
of publication of notices by officers of guardians, 249, 320;
contribution from part of parish for, 334, 659;
of obtaining returns, 179; of public inquiry, 181; of inquiry, as to
compulsory purchase of lands, 96; of election of school board, 217,
223, 257-259, 504; of officer to enforce bye-laws, 144; of audit,
163-165, 170; of publication of notices, 249, 320; of educational
relief by guardians, 229, 230, 325, 326; of providing prizes in school
board schools, 90.
EXPENSES, travelling, of candidates for appointments, 143, 144.
FACTORIES, exemption from restrictions as to employment of children
in, when employed and attending school under Factory Acts, 275,
276, 350, 352, 462, 463;
extension of provisions of Factory Acts, 1844 and 1874, as to employ-
ment and education of children in, 281, 462-467.
FACTORY ACTS, definition of, 333;
extension of provisions of, as to employment and education of children,
281, 462-467.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS, education of children em-
ployed under, 277, 278, 281, 462-467.
FARMED SCHOOL, 519.
FEE GRANT, provisions as to, 362-376;
conditions of, 362, 365, 366, 368, 369; relaxation of conditions of,
362; amount of, 362; ages of children for whom payable, 362; to be
calculated on average attendance, 362, 363, 364, 366, 368, 375;
when may be reduced, 362; to be reckoned as school pence, 362;
not payable to evening schools, 362;
limit of fees in schools receiving, 365; when all charges are prohibited
in schools receiving, 368; modification of limit of fees, 369; reduc-
tion of, in cases of charge or increase of fees, 369; receipt of, optional,
362, 363;
may be paid into common school fund by managers of voluntary
schools, 373;
regulations of Education Department as to, 364, 365.
FEES for attendance at school, how to be fixed, 84; prepayment of, 85,
86, 184, 185; remission of, by school board, 84, 283; recovery of,
when in arrear, 86, 87; payment of, not to be made by school board,
113, 182, 186, 283; payment of, by guardians, for children of poor
parents not paupers, 283, 617-646; for out-door pauper children,.
229, 230, 325, 326, 353; repayment of, for children from workhouse,
when paid, 329; by Education Department in case of children
possessing certificates, 302, 307, 308; paid by guardians for children
of non-paupers, mode of charging, 321, 322, 621-624; offence of
fraudulently obtaining remission or payment of, 322; to be carried
to school fund, 156; remission of, by school board, not parochial
relief to parent, 84, 113, 283; bye-laws as to, 182; bye-laws made
by school attendance committee not to provide for remission or pay-
ment of, 307; schoolmaster's account of, 571, 590; allowance of, by
way of loan, 645; limit of, in schools receiving fee grant, 365;
power to modify when fee grant is received, 369; scholars may be
admitted by school board without requiring, 374.
FEMALES eligible for election as members of school board, 125.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT of income, expenditure, &c., of school
board, 569, 584.
FITTING-UP schools, rules as to, 530.
FORGING certificates, 253, 322, 324.
FORGED TRANSFER ACT, 1891, power of local authority under,
to compensate for loss by forged transfer, 236.
FORM of returns of schools and school attendances, 176-178, 250;
of requisition for meeting for application for school board, 492;
of notice of election of school boards, in boroughs, 483, 488; in
parishes, 506, 512;
of precept, 227; of books and accounts, 579-592, 623, 624; of mort-
gage, 460; of transfer of mortgage, 461; of arrangement for transfer
of school to school board, 549; of ballot papers for voting on appli-
cation for school board, 496, 501; of notice of audit, 573; of bye-
laws issued by Education Department, 558; of deposit of bye-laws,
561; of declaration of deposit of bye-laws, 562; certificates of
school attendance, 613; certificates of proficiency, 613; requisition
for certificate of birth, 612, 615, 616; of statutory declaration by
parents as to age of child, 612, 613; of labour certificate, 613;
certificate of expenditure of school attendance committees, 651.
FREE SCHOOL ACCOMMODATION, repealed provision of Act of
1870, 114; on representation of deficiency of, Education Depart-
ment may after inquiry, 371; if satisfied of deficiency, order it to
be supplied, 371; no order to be issued when deficiency is being
supplied with due dispatch, 371.
GIFTS of land for schools, 129, 130;
for educational purposes, 244, 245.
See also School Sites Acts.
GRANTS to schools
GRATUITIES to officers, 142.
GUARDIANS, included in term "parent," 62.
GUARDIANS, interpretation of term, 253, 254;
appointment of school attendance committee by, 277, 341, 342; school
attendance committee appointed by, constituted "local author-
ity," 277;
alteration of number of members of school attendance committee by,
316;
consent of, to incurring expense and employment of officers by
school attendance committee, 313, 649; to expenses of contri-
butions towards maintenance of children in industrial schools,
347;
time for payment by, of debts in respect of expenses of school attend-
ance committee, 314, 315;
to give relief to parent when necessary to enable him to pay amount
ordered for cost of child in a certified day industrial school, 299';
mode of charging relief so given, 299;
power of, to contribute to maintenance of child in industrial school,
347;
to give relief necessary for attendance at school of out-door pauper
children, 229, 230, 325, 326, 353;
payment by, of school fees for children of poor persons, not paupers,
283, 617-646;
delegation of powers as to fees of non-pauper children to committees,
636, 640;
may pay expense of publication of notices, 249, 320; duty of officers
of, as to publishing notices, 249;
mode of charging school fees for non-paupers, 321, 322, 621-624;
may obtain contribution from part of parish, 334. See also Expenses.
HALF-TIME SCHOLARS, calculation of attendances of, 545; certi-
ficates of, 563; register of, 544.
HOME LESSONS, instructions of Education Department as to, 82;
children cannot be detained at school for not doing, 82, 185.
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