the parent of a child, and on the undertaking of the parent to pay towards the industrial training, elementary education, and meals of such child such sum, not less than one shilling a week, as a Secretary of State from time to time fixes, receive such child into the school without an order of the court; it is hereby ordered that the reception of the child by the managers of a school shall be taken to be an undertaking by them to provide him with industrial training, elementary education, and one or more meals a day, but not lodging, for the term agreed upon with the managers, or until the withdrawal or resignation of the certificate of the school takes effect, or until the contribution to the school of money provided by Parliament is discontinued, whichever shall first happen: provided that such undertaking of the managers shall be suspended during any week with respect to which the contribution of the parent has not been paid in advance.

The undertaking of the parent shall specify the religious persuasion to which the child belongs, and may be made in the form set forth in the schedule hereto.

PARLIAMENTARY GRANT TO AND MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL.

Inspectors to see that Conditions as to Parliamentary Grant are observed.

21. Whereas it is enacted, by the 16th and 17th sections of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, as follows:

There may be contributed out of moneys provided by Parliament towards the custody, industrial training, elementary education, and meals of children sent by an order of a court other than an attendance order under this Act to a certified day industrial school such sums not exceeding one shilling per head per week, and on such conditions as a Secretary of State from time to time recommends:

The managers of a certified day industrial school may, upon the request of a local authority and of the parent of a child, and upon the undertaking of the parent to pay towards the industrial training, elementary education, and meals of such child such sum, not less than one shilling a week, as a Secretary of State from time to time fixes, receive such child into the school under an attendance order or without an order of a court; and there may be contributed out of moneys provided by Parliament in respect of that child such sum not exceeding sixpence a week and on such such conditions as a Secretary of State from time to time recommends.

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The conditions of a Parliamentary contribution to a certified day industrial school, to be recommended by the Secretary of State, shall provide for the examination of the children according to the standards of proficiency for the time being in force for the purposes of a Parliamentary grant to public elementary schools; but may vary the amounts of the contributions to be made in respect of such standards respectively.

Any conditions recommended by a Secretary of State for the purposes of contributions to a day industrial school shall be laid before Parliament in the same manner as Minutes of the Education Department relating to the annual Parliamentary grant.

It is hereby ordered that it shall be the duty of the inspector of day industrial schools, acting under the directions of the Secretary of State, to ascertain that such conditions have been duly observed. (1)

Inspector to see that certain Provisions of Elementary Education Act, 1876, and Regulations of Education Department as to Certificates and Registers are observed.

22. Whereas, by the 5th section of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, it is enacted that a person shall not take into his employment (except as thereinafter in the said Act mentioned) any child who, being of the age of ten years or upwards, has not obtained such certificate either of his proficiency in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic, or of previous due attendance at a certified efficient school (which includes a certified day industrial school) as is in that Act in that behalf provided, unless in the circumstances specified in the said section:

And whereas, by the 24th section of the same Act, it is enacted as follows:

The certificates of proficiency of a child in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic, and of the previous due attendance of a child at a certified efficient school for the purposes of this Act, shall be certificates of proficiency and previous due attendance ascertained according to the standards set forth in the First Schedule to this Act, and such certificate shall be granted to the child entitled to the same free of cost or charge to such child, or to the parent of such child.

The Education Department may from time to time by order make, and when made revoke and vary, regulations with respect to certificates of age for the purposes of this Act

(1) For recommendations made by the Secretary of State under secs. 16 and 17 of the Education Act, 1876, with reference to Parliamentary grants, see pp. 702-706.

and the persons by whom and the form in which certificates of the said proficiency and due attendance are to be granted, and with respect to other matters relating thereto, and with respect to the preservation of registers and other records of such proficiency and attendance, and such regulations shall be observed by the local authority and the managers of certified efficient schools.

All regulations made by the Education Department under this section shall be laid before Parliament in the same manner as Minutes of the Education Department relating to the annual Parliamentary grant.

And whereas the First Schedule to the said Act provides that for the purpose of employment the standards shall be the following:

(1.) The standard of proficiency in reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic for the purpose of a certificate under this Act enabling a child to be employed shall be the standard of reading, writing, and elementary arithmetic fixed by standard four of the Code of 1876, or any higher standard.

(2.) The standard of previous due attendance at a certified efficient school for the purpose of a certificate under this Act enabling a child to be employed shall be two hundred and fifty attendances after five years of age in not more than two schools during each year for five years, whether consecutive or not.

(3.) During the four years next after the commencement of this Act, the standards for the purpose of enabling a child to be employed shall, instead of the foregoing standards, be those shown in the following table:

Provided that—

(a) In the case of a school district in which for not less than three years before the commencement of this Act bye-laws have been in force requiring, as a condition of total or partial exemption of a child from attendance at school, that such child must have passed a standard of proficiency corresponding to the fourth standard of the Code of 1876 or any higher standard, the same or a corresponding standard of proficiency (but not exceeding the standard which, under this schedule, will be required after four years from the commencement of this Act) shall be required for the purpose of a certificate under this Act enabling a child to be employed.

(b) Where a child has been lawfully taken into employment in any year in consequence of having obtained a certificate in accordance with the above table, such child may in any subsequent year be taken into employment without any further certificate, notwithstanding that under the table a certificate requiring a higher standard is required for that year.

And whereas, by the same schedule, it is further provided that attendance for the purpose of the said schedule, where the attendance is at a certified day industrial school, includes such attendance as may be from time to time directed for the purpose by a Secretary of State; and that the Code of 1876 in the said schedule means, in England, the Code of the Minutes of the Education Department made in the year 1876 with respect to the Parliamentary grant to public elementary schools in England:

It is hereby ordered that it shall be the duty of the inspector of day industrial schools to see that the provisions of the said Act and the regulations of the Education Department as to certificates and registers and other matters relating thereto, be strictly observed in certified day industrial schools.

29 & 30 Vict., c. 118, s. 25.

23. A minister of the religious persuasion which, as the case may be, is specified in the order of detention or attendance order as that to which the child appears to the court making the order to belong, or specified in the undertaking of the parent of a child attending the school without an order of court as that to which the child belongs, may visit the child at the school on such days and at such times as are from time to time fixed by regulations made by the Secretary of State for the purpose of instructing him in religion.

33 & 34 Vict., c. 75, s. 7 (1).

It shall not be required as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in a certified day industrial school, whether under an order of detention, attendance order, or otherwise, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school or any place of worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects in the school or elsewhere to which observance or instruction his parent objects, or that he shall, if withdrawn by his parent, attend the school on any day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which his parent belongs, and the parent may, on any such day, withdraw the child accordingly.

Rules of School to be approved by Secretary of State
(29 & 30 Vict., c. 118, s. 29).

24. The managers of a certified day industrial school may from time to time make rules for the management and discipline of the school, not being inconsistent with the provisions of this Order: but those rules shall not be enforced until they have been approved in writing by the Secretary of State; and rules so approved shall not be altered without the like approval. (1)

A printed copy of rules purporting to be the rules of a school so approved and to be signed by the inspector of day industrial schools shall be evidence of the rules of the school.

Evidence as to Reception in School, &c.
(29 & 30 Vict., c. 118, s. 30).

25. A certificate purporting to be signed by one of the managers of a certified day industrial school or their secretary, or by the superintendent or other person in charge of the school, to the effect that the child therein named was duly received into and is at the signing thereof liable to detention in the school under an order of detention, or required to attend thereat under an attendance order, or has been duly discharged or removed therefrom, or otherwise disposed of according to law, shall be evidence of the matters therein stated.

School presumed to be Certified (29 & 30 Vict., c. 118, s. 18).

26. The industrial school named in an order of detention or an attendance order shall be presumed to be a certified day industrial school until the contrary is shown.

(1) For instructions issued by Secretary of State as to the regulations which must be embodied in the rules, see pp. 697, 698.