5. Every school by previous attendance at which a child is qualified for obtaining the payment of fees, and the school at which the fees are paid by the Department, shall be a school, or a department of a school, at which the ordinary school fee does not exceed 6d. a week.

(a.) The ordinary school fee shall be held to exceed 6d. a week if more than 20 per cent. of the children attending the school pay more than that sum.

6. The school at which a child's fee is paid need not be the same as that at which the examination qualifying the child for such payment was passed.

7. The fees paid under this order shall be paid to the managers, at the same time with the grant, under the code of the Department, and are to be reckoned as school pence, for the purposes of article 32 (a) of that code.

8. A special certificate of honour will be granted by the Department to every child who becomes qualified for payment of fees under this order.

9. A child does not forfeit an honour certificate by moving from one school to another in the course of the year; but no fee can be paid by the Department until the child has made 350 attendances in the second school. F. R. SANDFORD,

FORM OF BYELAWS

ISSUED BY EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT.1

BYELAWS MADE UNDER SECTION 74 OF THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT, 1870, AS AMENDED BY THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACт, 1876.

For the 2

By the 3

1. In these byelaws

Definitions.

The term "district" means 4

The term "child" means a child residing in the district. The term "school" means a certified efficient school.

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Attendance means an attendance at a morning or afternoon meeting as defined by the Code of 1876.

The "Code of 1876 " means the Code of Minutes of the

1 When byelaws have been adopted, one copy of the form, with the alterations in ink, should be transmitted to the Education Department for consideration, before any further steps whatever are taken. Another copy of the form with the alterations should be retained by the School Board or School Attendance Committee. As soon as the Education Department consider that the byelaws are in such a form that they may be printed and deposited, the School Board or School Attendance Committee will be informed of that fact. For form of notice of deposit of byelaws and form of declaration of deposit of byelaws, see pp. 150, 151.

2 Insert the name of the district to which it is intended that the proposed byelaws shall relate.

3 Insert the name of the School Board or School Attendance Committee making the proposed byelaws.

4 Insert the name of the district to which it is intended that the proposed byelaws shall relate.

Education Department made in the year 1876, with respect to the parliamentary grant to public elementary schools in England.

The term "local authority" means the local authority for the district acting for the time being under the Elementary Education Act, 1876.

Children to attend school.

2. The parent of every child of not less than 5 nor more than 13 years of age, shall cause such child to attend school, unless there be a reasonable excuse for non-attendance.

Reasonable excuses.

Any of the following reasons shall be a reasonable excuse, namely::

(a) That the child is under efficient instruction in some other manner.

(b) That the child has been prevented from attending school by sickness or any unavoidable cause.

(c) That there is no public elementary school open, which the child can attend, within 1 miles measured according to the nearest road, from the residence of such child.

Time of attendance.

3. The time during which every child shall attend school shall be the whole time for which the school selected shall be open for the instruction of children of similar age, including the day fixed by Her Majesty's inspector for his annual visit.

Proviso as to religion and labour Acts.

4. Provided always that nothing in these byelaws(a) Shall prevent the withdrawal of any child from any religious observance or instruction in religious subjects:

1 Insert a number not greater than three.

(b) Shall require any child to attend school on any day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which his parent belongs; or (c) Shall have any force or effect in so far as it may

be

contrary to anything contained in any Act for regulating the education of children employed in labour.

Proviso as to standard for exemption.

5. And provided always that

(a) A child between ten and thirteen years of age shall not be required to attend school if such child has received a certificate from one of Her Majesty's inspectors of schools that it has reached the fifth 1 standard prescribed by the Cede of 1876.

(b) A child between ten and thirteen years of age shown to the satisfaction of the local authority to be beneficially and necessarily employed shall not be required to attend school for more than 150 2 attendances in each year if such child has received a certificate from one of Her Majesty's inspectors of schools that it has reached the standard 3 prescribed by the Code of 1876.

Penalty.

6. Every parent who shall not observe, or shall neglect or violate these byelaws, or any of them, shall, upon conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding, with the costs, five shillings for each offence.

Revocation.

7. Any byelaws heretofore made under section 74 of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, or under that section as

This standard has been generally adopted. No standard lower than the fourth will be approved.

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2 This may be varied by inserting "5 attendances in each week during which the school is open," or 150 (or more) attendances during certain (specified) months in the year.

3 Insert the third or some other standard.

amended by the Elementary Education Act, 1876, are hereby revoked as from the day on which the present byelaws shall come into operation.

The above byelaws were made by the 1

at a meeting held on the

day of

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In witness whereof the School Board have hereunto set their common seal this

day of 2

18.

L.S.

Sealed in the presence of

Chairman.

Clerk.

'Insert the name of the School Board or School Attendance Committee making the proposed byelaws.

2 The words from "in witness" to "in the presence of " must be omitted when a School Attendance Committee make the byelaws.