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Sect. 22.

Sect. 23.

(3.) At least half of the said half holidays or
whole holidays shall be allowed between
the fifteenth day of March and the first
day of October in every year; and
(4.) Cessation from work shall not be deemed to
be a half holiday or whole holiday, unless
a notice of the half holiday or whole
holiday has been affixed in the factory or
workshop for at least the whole period of
employment of young persons and women
on the last previous work day but one;
and

(5.) A half holiday shall comprise at least one
half of the period of employment for
young persons and women on some day
other than Saturday.

A child, young person, or woman who

(a.) on a whole holiday fixed by or in pursuance of this section for a factory or workshop

is employed in the factory or workshop,

or

(b.) on a half holiday fixed in pursuance of this section for a factory or workshop is employed in the factory or workshop during the portion of the period of employment assigned for such half holiday,

shall be deemed to be employed contrary to the provisions of this Act.

If in a factory or workshop such whole holidays or half holidays as required by this section are not fixed in conformity therewith, the occupier of the factory or workshop shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds (7).

(5.) Education of Children.

XXIII. The parent of a child employed Attendance in a factory or in a workshop shall cause that

(r) S. 83.

Sect. 23.

child to attend some recognised efficient school (which school may be selected by such parent) (8), at school of as follows:

children employed in

(1.) The child, when employed in a morning or a factory or afternoon set, shall in every week, during workshop. any part of which he is so employed, be caused to attend on each work day for at least one attendance; and

(2.) The child, when employed on the alternate day system, shall on each work day preceding each day of employment in the factory or workshop be caused to attend for at least two attendances:

(3.) An attendance for the purposes of this section shall be an attendance as defined for

the time being by a Secretary of State

(s) The expression "parent" means a parent, guardian of, or person having the legal custody of, or control over, or having benefit from the wages, of a child or young person. S. 96. The "parent" will incur a penalty of £1 for neglecting to send the child to school. S. 84. The expression "recognised efficient school," means a “certified efficient school" (as defined by section 95), and also any school which the Education Department have not refused to take into consideration under the Elementary Education Act, 1870, as a school giving efficient elementary education to and suitable for the children of a school district, and which is recognised for the time being by an inspector under this Act as giving efficient elementary education. A "certified efficient school," is a public elementary school within the meaning of the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75; 36 & 37 Vict. c. 86), and any workhouse school in England certified to be efficient by the Local Government Board, and also any elementary school which is not conducted for private profit and is open at all reasonable times to the inspection of Her Majesty's inspectors of schools, and requires the like attendance from its scholars as is required in a public elementary school, and keeps such registers of those attendances as may be for the time being required by the Education Department, and is certified by the Education Department to be an efficient school. S. 95.

Sect. 23.

with the consent of the Education Department and be between the hours of eight in the morning and six in the evening (t):

Provided that

(a.) A child shall not be required by this Act to attend school on Saturday or on any holiday or half holiday allowed under this Act in the factory or workshop in which the child is employed; and

(b.) The non-attendance of the child shall be excused on every day on which he is certified by the teacher of the school to have been prevented from attending by sickness or other unavoidable cause, also when the school is closed during the ordinary holidays or for any other temporary

cause; and

(c.) Where there is not within the distance of two miles, measured according to the nearest road, from the residence of the child a recognised efficient school which the child can attend, attendance at a school temporarily approved in writing by an inspector under this Act, although not a recognised efficient school, shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed attendance at a recognised efficient school until such recognised efficient school as aforesaid is established, and with a view to such establishment the inspector shall immediately report to the Education De(t) The expression "Secretary of State," means one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. And "Education Department," the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education. S. 96. For the purposes of this enactment "Attendance" has been defined to mean the attendance of a child at a morning or afternoon meeting of a school during not less than two hours of instruction in secular subjects. App. 134.

partment every case of the approval of a Sect. 23. school by him under this section.

A child who has not in any week attended school for all the attendances required by this section shall not be employed in the following week until he has attended school for the deficient number of attendances.

The Education Department shall from time to time, by the publication of lists or by notices or otherwise as they think expedient, provide for giving to all persons interested information of the schools in each school district which are recognised efficient schools.

attendance

XXIV. The occupier of a factory or workshop Sect. 24. in which a child is employed shall on Monday in obtaining every week (after the first week in which such child of school began to work therein), or on some other day ap- certificate pointed for that purpose by an inspector, obtain by occupier of factory or from the teacher of the recognised efficient school workshop. attended by the child, a certificate (according to the prescribed (u) form and directions) respecting the attendance of such child at school in accordance with this Act.

The employment of a child without obtaining such certificate as is required by this section shall be deemed to be employment of a child contrary to the provisions of this Act (v).

The occupier shall keep every such certificate for two months after the date thereof, if the child so long continues to be employed in his factory or his workshop, and shall produce the same to an inspector when required during that period.

XXV. The board authority or persons who manage Sect. 25. a recognised efficient school attended by a child em- Payment by ployed in a factory or workshop, or some person

occupier on

(u) That is, prescribed for the time being by a Secretary of State.

S. 96.

(v) S. 83.

Sect. 25.

application schooling

of sum for

of child, and

it from wages.

authorised by such board authority or person, may apply in writing to the occupier of the factory or workshop to pay a weekly sum specified in the application, not exceeding threepence and not exceeddeduction of ing one-twelfth part of the wages of the child, and after that application the occupier, so long as he employs the child, shall be liable to pay to the applicants, while the child attends their school, the said weekly sum, and the sum may be recovered as a debt, and the occupier may deduct the sum so paid by him from the wages payable for the services of the child.

Sect. 26. Employment as young person of

XXVI. When a child of the age of thirteen years has obtained from a person authorised by the Education Department a certificate of having attained such standard of proficiency in reading, child of 13 writing, and arithmetic, or such standard of previous due attendance at a certified efficient school, as hereinafter mentioned, that child shall be deemed to be a young person for the purposes of this Act.

on obtaining

an educational

certificate.

The standards of proficiency and due attendance for the purposes of this section shall be such as may be from time to time fixed for the purposes of this Act by a Secretary of State, with the consent of the Education Department, and the standards so fixed shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall not have effect until the expiration of at least six months after such publication.

Attendance at a certified day industrial school (w) shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be attendance at a certified efficient school.

(w) That is, a day industrial school certified by a Secretary of State under the Elementary Education Act, 1876, 39 & 40 Vict. c. 79, s. 16, and the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, 29 & 30 Vict. c. 118.

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