MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1882, 416, 419-433; applica-
tion of, to school board elections, 408.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS (CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL PRAC-
TICES) ACT, 1884, 377-419; application of, to school board
elections, 408.
NATIONAL SOCIETY, objection of, to transfer of school, 107, 108.
NEEDLEWORK, provision in New Code as to instruction in, 522.
NEWSPAPERS, publication of accounts in, 171; publication of notices
in, 188, 197, 249, 257, 282.
NOMINATION of candidates in election of school board in boroughs,
259; triennial elections, 486; first elections, 477; parishes, 259;
first elections, 502; triennial elections, 509; united districts, 515;
offences in respect of nomination papers, 202, 203.
NOTICE of inspection of schools not provided by school board, 195;
of decision of Education Department as to school accommodation,
74, 75, 78;
as to united school district, 149–152, 240; as to contributory district,
155.
NOTICES as to compulsory purchase of land by school board, 94;
service of, 94;
of deposit and audit of accounts, 166, 247, 248, 574; of deposit of bye-
laws, 182, 183, 188, 561;
publication of, 188, 197, 249, 257, 282; duties of parochial officers
and officers of guardians as to publication, 249; expenses of publica-
tion, 249, 320;
service of, 198; may be in writing or in print, 198; authentication of,
198.
OCCUPIERS, voting by, in school board election, when owners rated,
OFFICERS, appointment of, to make school returns in parishes, 178,
248; to act as inspectors of returns, 179, 180;
to hold public inquiries, 95, 180;
of school board, appointment of, 140, 226, 269; tenure of office, 140;
salaries of, 140; gratuities to, 142; duties of, 140; duties of, as to
books and accounts, 166, 169, 566-575, 577, 594; securities for due
discharge of duties by, 143;
appointment of, for more than one school board, 43;
appointment of, to enforce bye-laws as to attendance of children at
school, 144, 311-313, 320, 648, 653, 655; to take proceedings for
sending children to industrial school, 144, 311-313; to act as trea-
surers of schools provided by school board, 570;
appointment of, by ballot, 269; quo warranto in case of appointment of
clerk, 142;
appointment of, to levy rates on default of rating authority, 160; for
conduct of elections, 257;
employment and payment of, by local authority, 311-313, 648, 649,
653, 655, 656;
of local authority may obtain order for entry on premises where child
believed to be illegally employed, 312, 313;
authority required by, for commencing proceedings for non-attendance
at school, 323;
of school attendance committees. See Clerk to Guardians, and School
Attendance Officer.
OFFICES of school board, 331; of school board for London, 90.
ORDERS in Council as to bye-laws, 183;
as to certified day industrial schools, 299, 300, 667–695;
definition of certified day industrial school, 668;
inspection of, 668, 669, 682, 683;
mode of certifying school, 668, 669;
certificates of schools, 668, 669, 689, 690;
alterations, &c., of buildings to be approved by Secretary of State, 669;
powers of prison authority and school boards as to schools, 345, 346,
669-674;
classes of children who may be sent to schools, 674-678; children under
attendance order, 675, 676; under order of detention for non-com-
pliance with attendance order, 676, 677; children attending without
order of court, 677; children attending in pursuance of licence from
managers, 678; duty of local authority as to taking proceedings for
sending children to, 677, 678; provisions as to orders of detention,
678, 679; form of order sending child to school, 679; order to be
warrant of detention, 680; provisions as to attendance orders, 680,
681; rules as to management of school, 682-686; parliamentary
grant, 682, 683, 702; evidence of reception of child in, 686; evidence
of order of detention or attendance order, 687; penalty for child
under detention order not attending school or not conforming to
rules, 687; penalty for preventing child from attending school in
accordance with order of detention, 687; discharge of children from
school, 687, 688, 690; transfer of children in, 688, 690; withdrawal,
&c., of certificate of school, 689, 690; cesser of reception of children
on notice, 690; use of forms, 690, 691, 692–695;
as to payment from parliamentary grant of school fees of children with
certificates, 302.
ORDERS of Education Department, evidence of, 198, 332. See also
Regulations.
OUT-DOOR PAUPER CHILDREN, education of, at expense of
guardians, 229, 230, 325, 326, 353.
OVERSEERS, duty of, to make returns, 178, 179; when rating authority,
67, 216, 334; duty of, in part of parish outside boundary of borough,
196, 334, 659; to be furnished with statement of account of school
board, 171; with copies of notice as to exception to prohibition of
employment of children, for operations of husbandry and ingathering
of crops, and to cause same to be affixed to church and chapel doors,
282; when to be deemed overseers of part of parish for levy of rate,
334; duty as to allowing inspection of rate-book and assisting re-
turning officer, 160, 161, 196, 197, 232; publishing notices by, 249,
282; duty of, as to rates for expenses of school attendance com-
mittees, 659;
production of valuation lists by, 160, 161, 196, 197.
OWNERS rated instead of occupiers, right to vote in school board
election, 124.
OXFORD, school district for, 210; school board for, 210.
PARENT, definition of, 62, 184, 275, 290, 291; declaration of duty as to
education of child, 275; withdrawal by, of children from religious
instruction, 69, 70, 79, 182, 195, 211, 212; prepayment of fees by,
85, 86;
penalties for non-compliance with school attendance order, 289, 290.
See also School Attendance Order;
contributions by, to cost of maintenance and training of child in
industrial school, 290;
orders on, for cost of contribution towards cost of child in day industrial
school, 298, 299;
relief to be granted to, by guardians when necesssary to enable parent
to pay contributions, 299;
payment of school fees for children of non-paupers, 283, 617-646; for
children of pauper, 229, 230, 325, 326, 353;
statutory declaration by, as to age of child, 608, 612;
offence of making false representation as to age of child in order that he
may be employed, 324. See also Employment of Children.
PARISH, definition of, 62, 196, 240, 241, 334;
not included in borough or metropolis, election of school board in, 119,
131, 132, 217-221, 231, 258-267, 501-513;
part of, outside of borough to be deemed a parish, 196, 334; election
of school board in, 196;
requisition of, for bye-laws, 306, 351;
resolution of, for dissolution of school board, 329, 330;
when detached part of parish to be deemed separate school district,
240, 241; when part of, to be deemed a parish, 240, 241, 334.
PARISH PROPERTY, appropriation of proceeds of sale of, to school
purposes, 89.
PARISHES, union of small, in united school district for election and
other purposes, 153; in borough of Wenlock, election of school
board in, 271.
PARLIAMENTARY election, disfranchisement of person guilty of
corrupt practices in election of school board, 206; disqualification
for voting in school board election by reason of corrupt practices at,
120, 121; for being member of school board, 125, 126; use of public
elementary school for taking poll at, 90; as committee-room of
candidate in parliamentary election, 90, 91.
PARLIAMENTARY grant, definition of, 62; object and administration
of, 211-215;
modification of conditions of, to elementary schools, 303, 304;
payment by Education Department from, of fees of children with
certificates of proficiency, and of due attendance at school, 302, 307,
308, 339, 340;
grants for children sent to certified day industrial school, 298, 299, 682,
683, 702; for children received into certified day industrial school on
request of parents, 299, 702; conditions of, 302, 683, 702;
grants for building, enlarging, or improving schools, 211;
grants for maintenance of schools, conditions of, 211, 212, 213, 214,
517-527; calculation of attendance for, 521; standards of examina-
tion for, 528-530;
relaxation of conditions of, as to evening schools, 360;
powers of managers to comply with conditions of, 215; refusal of, to
unnecessary schools, 214, 518;
special grants to schools in districts with small population, 212, 303,
304, 360, 361; grants to school boards to be carried to school fund,
156;
Education Department may warn managers instead of withholding
grant, 526. See also Fee Grant.
PAROCHIAL RELIEF, remission or payment of school fees not, 84,
113, 283; disqualification for voting in school board elections, 122.
PAUPER CHILDREN, out-door, education of, to be a condition of
relief, 229, 230, 325, 326, 353.
PAUPERS, disqualification of, for voting in school board elections,
PAY-CLERK, duties and remuneration of, in respect of fees of non-
pauper children, 642, 643.
PENALTIES: offence in respect of nomination papers, ballot-papers, and
ballot-boxes, 202-204; infringement of secrecy in elections, 204;
misconduct in elections, 203, 204, 205; obstructing election, 202;
personation of voter, 202, 204; making incorrect return of election,
201; corrupt practices at elections, bribery, treating, undue influence,
personation, 206-208, 232, 401, 416, 419; for illegal practices at
elections, illegal payment, employment or hiring, &c., 206-208, 383,
for illegal employment of children, 277, 351, 352; agent or workman
liable to, for illegal employment of child, 323; parent making false
representation as to age of child in order that he may be employed,
liable to, 324;
for fraudulently obtaining remission or payment of school fees, 322;
refusing admission to, or obstructing officer authorised to enter place
where child believed to be illegally employed, 312, 313;
for non-compliance with bye-laws as to attendance at school, 183, 251,
252, 351, 352; with order directing attendance of child at school,
289, 290; with order of justices for production of child, 252; non-
attendance at audit, 169; non-production of accounts, 169; making
false declaration as to accounts, 169; making improper entry in
accounts, 170, 171; hindering inspection of books of school board
by ratepayers, 201; refusing to allow inspection of rate-book and
otherwise assist returning officer, 232; for tearing down or defacing
notices, 249;
forgery of certificate, or giving false information, 253, 322, 323;
on member of school board holding office under, or being concerned
in profits of work, &c., for board, 134, 135;
proceedings for recovery of, 210, 251-253, 323, 334, 345;
PENSIONS, TEACHERS', provisions of New Code as to, 527.
PERSON, definition of term, 62.
PERSONATION of voter, penalty for, 201, 202, 204, 415, 416, 419,
PETTY CASH BOOK of school board, 568, 582, 598; when may be
dispensed with, 568.
PLANS of schools, rules as to, 530.
POLL, at meeting of vestry, 65; at election of school board, 259; use
of public elementary schools for, in parliamentary elections, 90.
See also Elections of School Board and Application for School
Board.
POLLING STATIONS, number of and maximum allowance for, in
elections, 258.
POOR LAW BOARD, powers of, now vested in Local Government
Board, 168.
POOR-RATE, when to be deemed to be made, 266;
voting by owner in school board election when occupier assessed
to, 124;
public elementary schools not exempt from assessment to, 91-93;
levy of, for payment of precept of school board, 156, 157, 158, 159; in
part of parish, 334; collection of, 159; remuneration of collector
for collection of, 159;
levy of, for payment of expenses of school attendance committee ap-
pointed by guardians, 659;
expenses of publishing notices may be charged on, 249, 320;
the register of voters in parishes, 124, 232, 266, 267, 494.
POOR-RATE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION ACT, persons
to be deemed duly rated under, 62, 65, 66, 124.
POPULATION, proportion of children to, 69.
POST, service of notices, &c., by 197, 198.
PRAYERS and HYMNS in schools of London school board, 80, 81;
PRECEPT of school board, form of, 227; how to be signed, 198, 226;
enforcement of, 158, 159;
to whom to be sent, 156, 160.
PRESIDING OFFICER, duties and responsibilities of, 204, 205; re-
muneration of, 258, 504;
PREVENTION OF CRIME ACT, 115.
PRISON AUTHORITY, powers of, with regard to establishing and
contributing to cost of certified day industrial school, 298,
669-672.
PRIZES in school board schools, 90.
PROCEEDINGS of school attendance committees, 341, 342, 647, 648,
653,655.
PROCEEDINGS of school board, regulations as to, 128, 224-226,
269; evidence of, 128; disqualification, &c., not to invalidate,
128;
managers appointed by school board, regulations as to, 226, 227; to
apply to proceedings of school attendance committee and local com-
mittee, 341, 342;
before justices for penalties, 210, 251-253, 323, 334, 335.
PROFICIENCY. See Certificates.
PROVISIONAL Orders of Education Department, Acts confirming, 96,
99; scale of costs in respect of, 101.
PUBLICATION of provisions of Act of 1876 by local authority, 277;
of notices, 188, 197, 249, 257, 282, 482, 506; expenses of, 249, 320;
of statement of accounts, 171.
PUBLICATIONS, purchase of, by school boards, 157.
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, definition of, 69, 70; regu-
lations for conduct of, 69, 70, 79; payment of fees for attendance at,
not to be made by school board, 113, 182, 186, 283; by guardians in
case of out-door pauper children, 229, 230, 325, 326, 353; in case
of children from workhouse, 329; in case of children of poor
persons not paupers, 283, 617-646; infraction of conscience clause in,
278; refusal of admission of child into, 188; order of justices for
attendance of child at, 251, 252, 286, 287; inspection of, 70, 195;
use of, for taking poll at parliamentary election, 90; as committee-
room of candidate at parliamentary election, 90, 91; use of, free of
charge for purposes of Allotments Act, 91; non-exemption of, from
assessment to poor rate, 91-93; school board to be furnished with
returns of attendance at, 250; liability for accident to scholar in,
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