N.B.-This book, on the child's admission to a Certified Efficient School, is to be given to the teacher, who will keep it, and, at the end of every year, make an entry of the child's attendances (after 5 years of age), and progress (after 7) during the year. The book will be given back, duly made up, when the child leaves the school; and the child may claim the use of it, for a reasonable time, when qualified for, and seeking, half-time employment.

1 School Board, or School Attendance Committee.

2 Borough, Parish, Union, or Sanitary Authority.

3 Signature of Clerk or other officer of the Local Authority of the District, or of principal Teacher of a Certified Efficient School.

State the office of the person who signs; and name of Local Authority, or of School.

*As to the alterations to be made when the rule requiring a Registrar's certificate is waived, see p. 134.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT.

I. No person may take into employment a child under 10 years of age. II. Between 10 and 14 years of age, the conditions of a child's employment are fixed

A. In Districts with Bye-laws, by the bye-laws of each district.

These affect children up to 13 years of age: between 13 and 14, a child falls under the general provisions of the Act of 1876, quoted below.

B. In other Districts,

During

the

year.

1. In factories and workshops, by the special Acts regulating such employment.

2. In general labour, by the Elementary Education Act, 1876, according to which,

No child may be employed who does not hold a certificate of proficiency or previous attendance at school, according to the following standards :

The standard of pro-
ficiency, shall be the
standard of Reading,
Writing, and Arith-
metic, fixed by the
following standard of
the Code of 1876, or
any higher standard,
namely,-

The standard of previous due
attendance shall be

The follow-
ing number
of attend-

ances.

In not more than two certified efficient schools during each year for the following number of years, whether consecutive or not.

PAYMENT OF SCHOOL FEES FOR CHILDREN
HOLDING HONOUR CERTIFICATES.

REGULATIONS OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, WHITEHALL, THE 9TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1877, AND THE 2ND DAY OF APRIL, 1878. BY THE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL ON EDUCATION. 1

The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council on Education, by virtue and in pursuance of the powers in them vested under the Elementary Education Act of 1876, and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:

With respect to the payment of school fees under the Elementary Education Act, 1876, on behalf of children who obtain certain certificates of proficiency and due attendance at school.

1. If a child attending a public elementary school, being less than 11 years of age at the yearly examination of the scholars of such school for annual grants, is certified in a form to be prescribed for the purpose by the Education Department,

(a.) To have passed in each of the three subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic, in the standard fixed by the fourth or any higher standard of the code of the Department; and

(b.) To have made 350 attendances, after five years of age, in not more than two public elementary schools during each year, for three 2 previous years;

The school fee charged for such child at any public ele

The regulations printed in italics are those contained in the order of the 2nd April, 1878.

2 In 1880 this will be raised to four, and in 1881 to five years.

mentary school, in the course of the next three years, may be paid by the Department.

(c.) The previous years referred to in Regulation 1 (b) are the years immediately preceding the date of the scholar's examination.

a

(d.) The fee paid for a child shall not exceed either 6d. week, or such fee as would have been paid for the child but for this order.

(e.) No fee shall be charged for a child in addition to the fee paid for it under this order.

2. Not more than 10 per cent. of the children above seven years of age presented for examination in a school, in any year, shall become entitled to payment of their fees under this order, and if the children qualified for such payment exceed the said per-centage, those who have attended the greatest number of times shall have the preference.

3. The continuance of the payment of the fee for a child shall be conditional upon the child (a) attending one school in each school year for not less than 350 attendances in the year, (b) obtaining at the end of the year a certificate of proficiency in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic, according to a standard higher than the standard passed at the end of the previous year, and (c) passing in one of the specific subjects of secular instruction contained in the Fourth Schedule in the code of the Education Department.

(a.) The payment of the fee for a child at the end of any year shall be subject to the same conditions as those which affect the continuance of the payment of the fee for the ensuing year.

(b.) Special allowance will be made by the inspector in examining scholars when, from a change in the yearly date of inspection, the school has not been open 400 times in the year (Article 13 of Code).

4. For the purposes of this order there shall be deemed to be a seventh standard in the code of the Department, comprising a thorough proficiency in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic, as prescribed by the six standards set forth in the 28th article of that code, with the addition of interest (simple and compound).