82, 83; grouping of, by managers under Act of 1891, 374; board
schools not to be associated with schools other than board schools,
374; no preference to be given to board or non-board schools, 375;
closing of, through epidemic, 521, 525. See also Elementary Schools
and Parliamentary Grant.
PUBLIC INQUIRY. See Inquiry.
PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCOMMODATION, Education Department
to determine sufficiency of, 67-69, 73-75, 78, 88, 146, 149, 150;
to issue notice of their decision as to, 74; appeal against decision,
74, 75; public inquiry as to, 74, 75; final notice of decision, 75;
decision as to sufficiency of, in metropolis, 146; in united school
district, 149, 150;
definition of, extended to include public school accommodation without
payment of fees, 371;
deficiency in, to be supplied, 67-69, 75, 76, 88, 371; provision of, un-
necessary, 88, 214, 215.
PUBLIC WORKS LOAN COMMISSIONERS may grant loans for
erection of schools, 142, 234, 235; for industrial schools, 297, 346;
for offices, 331.
PUBLIC WORKS LOANS ACTS, 236-239, 346.
PUNISHMENT, CORPORAL, in board schools, 81, 82.
PURCHASE OF LANDS. See Lands.
PURCHASE OF PUBLICATIONS by school boards, 157.
QUORUM at meetings of school board, 224; of managers appointed by
school board, 227.
QUO WARRANTO in case of clerk of school board, 142.
RAGGED SCHOOLS, rating of, 93.
RATE for payment of expenses of school attendance committee appointed
by guardians, 659.
RATÉABLE VALUE, mode of ascertaining, 147, 159, 160, 196,
197, 246.
RATE-BOOK, the register of voters, 124, 232, 266, 267, 494; when
copy may be made for purpose of election, 504, 505;
inspection of, 160, 161, 196, 197, 232.
RATEPAYERS, definition of term, 62, 66, 124, 266; when owners are
to be deemed, 124;
may apply for inquiry as to decision of Education Department as to
public school accommodation, 74, 75; may apply for formation of
school board, 76, 77, 222, 233, 491; in united districts, 233, 240,
497; may apply for dissolution of school board, 329, 330; requisi-
tion for bye-laws by, 306, 351;
election by, of school boards in parishes not in boroughs or metropolis,
119, 131, 132, 217-221, 231, 258-267, 477-490; in certain divisions
of metropolis, 145, 146, 222, 223; in united school district, 152,
153, 272, 273, 514; in Wenlock borough, 271; in contributory
district,154, 514, 515; in part of parish outside borough, 196;
may obtain copy of bye-laws of school board, 182, 183; statement of
accounts of school board, 171; may attend audit and object to
accounts, 166; inspect books of school board, 166, 201, 575.
RATING of public elementary schools, 91-93; ragged schools, 93;
Sunday schools, 93.
RATING AUTHORITY, in boroughs, 67, 216; in Oxford, 67, 210,
216; in Wenlock, 271; in metropolis, 67, 216; in parishes not in
boroughs or metropolis, 67, 216, 334; in united and contributory
districts, 149, 150, 159, 160;
deficiency in school fund to be raised by, 147, 156, 157, 246, 334;
default of, remedy for, 147, 158, 159;
statement of account of school board to be sent to, 171.
REASONABLE EXCUSES for non-attendance at school, 182, 184, 185,
187, 188, 287.
RECOVERY of possession of schoolhouse, 200; sums, &c., certified by
auditor, 169 170; penalties, 210, 251-253, 323, 334, 345.
REDUCTION of parliamentary grant for maintenance of schools. See
Parliamentary Grant.
REGISTER of voters in parishes, 124, 232, 266, 267, 494;
of school admissions, 522, 540; of school attendances, 522, 541, 663;
of half-time scholars, 544.
REGISTRARS OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS, to furnish certificates of
births, 308, 615; to furnish returns of births and deaths to local
authority, 309.
REGISTRATION OF CANAL BOATS, for purpose of Education
Acts, 474, 475.
REGULATIONS as to election and retirement of members of school
boards of boroughs and parishes not in metropolis, 217-221, 258-
268, 477-490, 501-513; in metropolis, 222, 223; in Wenlock
borough, 271; confirmatiou of, 231, 272; applications for school
boards, 76, 77, 222, 233, 491; in united districts, 233, 240, 497;
purchase of land compulsorily by school board, 93–96, 246;
as to form of accounts of school boards, 170, 247, 248, 565;
for conduct of public elementary schools, 69, 70, 79; management of
schools provided by school board, 79;
as to proceedings of school board, 128, 224-226, 269; proceedings of
managers appointed by school board, 226, 227; proceedings of school
attendance committees and local committees, 341, 342, 647, 653,
655.
See also regulations of Education Department, and Local Government
Board.
REGULATIONS OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT as to boun-
daries and number of members to be elected for divisions of
metropolis, 147, 148;
boroughs, first elections, 477; triennial elections, 485; parishes, first
elections, 501; triennial elections, 508; united and contributory
districts, triennial elections, 514-516;
as to certified efficient schools, 603-607; applications for certificates for,
604; preliminary conditions of certificates for, 604-606; standards of
instruction, discipline and organization in, 606; school registers in,
606; general conditions as to certificates of, 606, 607; cancellation or
suspension of certificates, 607;
as to certificates of age, 608, 609, 611, 612; certificates of school
attendances, 610, 613, 614; certificates of proficiency, 609, 611, 613;
as to transfers of schools to school boards, 102-105, 108-110, 548.
See also Parliamentary Grant.
REGULATIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD as to form
of requisition for copy of entry in birth register, 615, 616; fee
payable for certified copy of entry, 615;
school fees of non-pauper children, 617-646; proceedings of guardians
as to, 618-622, 632, 634-637, 640-646; delegation to relief com-
mittees of powers of guardians as to, 636, 637, 640, 641; appoint-
ment of persons as inquiry officers to inquire into applications for
payment of, 618, 632, 634; qualification, remuneration, and tenure
of office of inquiry officers, 618, 619, 632; duties of inquiry officers,
619-622; appointment of temporary substitute for, 619; payment of
school fees by inquiry officers, 621; school fees application and
report book, 620-623, 637, 641; school fees order book, 621, 622,
624, 637, 638; examination of accounts as to school fees by clerk to
guardians, 622; audit of accounts as to, 622, 625, 626, 643; employ-
ment of pay clerk for payment of fees, 642-644; effect of Act of
1891 as to payment of fees, 618;
workhouse schools, attendances and attendance registers, 660, 663;
school attendance committees appointed by guardians, 647-654;
meetings of, 647, 648; appointment of school attendance officers by,
648, 653, 655; qualification, tenure of office, and remuneration of,
648, 649, 653, 655; duties of school attendance officers, 650;
appointment of temporary substitute for school attendance officer,
648; duties of clerk to school attendance committee, 649, 650; re-
ceipts and expenses of school attendance committee, 650,651,657,659.
RELIEF by guardians for attendance of children at school, 229, 230, 283,
325, 326, 353, 617-646, 657-659; for cost of child in certified day
industrial school, 299.
RELIEF COMMITTEES, delegation to, by guardians of powers as to
fees of non-pauper children, 636, 640.
RELIEVING OFFICER, election of, as member of school board, 127.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION or observances in public elementary
school, children may be withdrawn from, 69, 70, 79, 181, 182, 195,
212; when to take place, 70, 71, 181, 182, 195, 212; time-table as to,
70-73, 112, 546, 547; not to be provided for by bye-laws, 182;
infraction of provisions as to, to be reported to Education Department
by local authority, 278. See also Catechism.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION in schools provided by school boards,
RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE, children not to be examined in, by Her
Majesty's inspectors, 70.
REMISSION OF SCHOOL FEES by school board, 84, 283; bye-laws
made by school attendance committee not to provide for, 307.
REPEAL of parts of Acts of 1870, 1873 and 1876, 254, 255, 270, 335,
343, 353, 354, 375, 376.
REPORTS of Education Department, 175, 183, 215, 369; of school
board, 211.
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1867, 414, 415.
RESIGNATION of members of school board, 219; of managers
appointed by school board, 83.
RESOLUTION of ratepayers as to application for school board, 76, 77,
222, 223, 491: in united district, 233, 240, 497; as to requisition for
bye-laws, 306, 351; for dissolution of school board, 329, 330.
RETIREMENT of members of school board, rules as to, 132, 217, 221;
of members of school board for London, 222, 223.
RE-TRANSFER of elementary school by school board to managers,
RETURNING OFFICER, election not to be questioned on ground of
title of, 218, 219; in boroughs, 477, 485; in parishes, 501, 508;
overseers or other parochial officers to assist, 232; expenses of,
257-259, 504.
RETURN OF VOTES at election, penalty for making incorrect, 201.
RETURNS to Education Department as to elementary schools, by whom
and when to be made, 176-180, 211, 248, 331; remuneration for,
and expenses incident to, 179;
supply of forms for, 178;
appointment of persons to make, 178, 179, 248; of inspector for, 179,
180;
neglect of local authority to furnish, 179; failure of managers of schools
to make, 180;
duty of school board as to, 171, 176-180, 211; of local authority as to, 331.
RETURNS to school board by managers of public elementary schools,
178, 250.
RETURNS OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS, duty of registrar as to
furnishing, to local authority, 309.
RULES as to planning and fitting up schools, 530. See also Regulations.
SALARIES of officers of school board, 140; of officers of local authority,
311-313, 649, 656, 657; inquiry officers, 619, 639.
SALARY of chairman of school board for London, 149.
SALE of lands by school board, 102; of schoolhouse, 102.
SCHEDULES, effect of, 210, 211, 253, 332.
SCHOLARS. See Children.
SCHOOL ACCOMMODATION. See Public School Accommodation.
SCHOOL ADMISSIONS AND ATTENDANCE, REGISTERS OF,
539-543, 544, 663.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CARDS of outdoor pauper children,
326-328
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE, appointment of, by
council of borough, 277; appointment of, by guardians, 277, 342;
appointment of, by urban sanitary authority, 317, 318; appointment
by urban sanitary authority of members to act with guardians as,
318; appointment of, by Education Department on default of local
authority, 310, 311;
constituted local authority, 277;
to exercise jurisdiction in district made contributory to school board
district, 154, 280, 305, 315;
alterations in number of members of, 316; regulations as to proceedings
of, 341, 342, 647, 648, 653, 655; filling up casual vacancies in, 342;
tenure of office of, 342;
appointed by council, expenses of, 313, 347; appointed by urban
sanitary authority, expenses of, 317, 347; appointed by guardians,
meetings of, 647, 648; appointment of officers by, 311-313, 320, 648,
649, 653, 655; duties of clerk to guardians as clerk to, 649, 650;
receipts and expenses of, 313-316, 320, 347, 650, 651, 657-659;
extent of jurisdiction of, 316;
appointment by, of local committees, 316, 341, 342;
effect of election of school board as regards, 318, 322;
contributions by council of borough, guardians and urban sanitary
authority towards maintenance of children in industrial schools on
recommendation of, 347;
power to make bye-laws without requisition of parish, 351.
See also Local Authority.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE OFFICER, appointment of, by school
attendance committee of union, 648, 653, 655; qualification, tenure
of office and remuneration of, 648, 649, 653, 655, 656; duties of,
649, 650.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ORDER, when order requiring attendance
of child at school to be applied for by local authority, 286, 287;
when order may be made, 286, 287; reasonable excuses for non-
compliance with order, 287; penalty on non-compliance without
reasonable excuse, 289, 290; complaints on continuing non-com-
pliance, 290; when child may be sent to industrial school on account
of order not being complied with, 290.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCES for purpose of parliamentary grant,
519-521; for purpose of employment, 275, 276, 337, 338, 610; for
payment of fees, 302, 339, 340.
SCHOOL BOARD, constituted local authority, 277; application for,
76, 77, 222, 233, 491; in united district, 233, 240, 497;
when may be formed, 75-78;
election of, by burgesses in boroughs, 119, 131, 132, 217-221, 231,
258-267, 477--490; by ratepayers in parishes not in boroughs or
metropolis, 119, 131, 132, 217-221, 231, 258-267, 477-490; in part
of parish outside of borough, 196; for Oxford, 210; for parishes in
Wenlock borough, 271;
election of, for united school district, 152, 153, 272, 273, 514; union
of small parishes in united school district, for election of, 153;
election of members of, for contributory district, 154, 514, 515;
period within which election may be questioned, 233;
effect of election of, as regards school attendance committee, 318, 322;
rules for election and retirement of members of, 217-221, 222, 223,
257-268, 477-490, 501-516; number of members of, in boroughs
and parishes not in metropolis, 131; number and distribution of
votes in election of, 119, 146;
casual vacancies, mode of filling up, 322, 342, 343; vacancies created
by report of election court, how to be filled, 409;
dissolution of, 329, 330;
offences 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
voters, 201, 202, 204, 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, illegal payment,
employment or hiring, &c., 208-210, 381-395;
determination of disputes as to election of, 133;
constitution of, in boroughs and parishes not in boroughs or metropolis,
67, 119, 127, 128, 271; in united school district, 152, 273; in Wenlock,
271;
incorporation of, 127; to have common seal, 127; powers of, to hold
land, 127, 128; contracts of, 128, 134-140;
rules as to proceedings at meetings of, 118, 224-226, 269; proceedings
not to be vitiated by vacancies or disqualification, &c., of members of,
128; minutes of, receivable in evidence, 128;
indemnification of members of, against costs, 128; disqualification of
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