Enactments relating to guardians.

In a union the clerk of the guardians is to be the clerk of the school attendance committee.

All enactments relating to guardians and their officers shall, with certain exceptions, be subject to regulations of the Local Government Board.

Section 34, Act of 1876.-Clerk of school attendance committee of guardians, and application of Acts to guardians and school attendance committee. -In a union the clerk of the guardians shall be the clerk of the school attendance committee for the purposes of this Act.

All enactments relating to guardians and their officers and expenses, and to relief given by guardians, shall, subject to the express provisions of this Act, apply as if the guardians, including the school attendance committee appointed by them, and their officers acting under this Act, and expenses incurred, and money paid for school fees and relief given under this Act, were respectively acting, incurred, and paid and given as relief under the Acts relating to the relief of the poor, and the Local Government Board may make rules, orders, and regulations accordingly.

Any expenses incurred by officers of guardians in carrying into effect section twenty of the Elementary Education Act, 1873, when paid by such guardians, may be charged by them to the parish in respect of which such expenses are incurred.

CHAPTER 3.

EXPENSES OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEES.

No expenses may be incurred by a school attendance committee without the consent of the council or guardians who appointed such committee; nor, in the case of guardians, without the consent of the Local Government Board.

All expenses shall be paid,—

1. In the case of a borough, out of the borough fund or borough rate :

2. In the case of a parish, out of the poor rate:

3. In the case of an urban sanitary district, out of the poor rate according to the rateable value of each parish comprised in the district.

Guardians will have the same powers of obtaining funds as they have at present to obtain a poor rate.

Section 31, Act of 1876.-Expenses of local authority other than school board. A school attendance committee under this Act shall not incur any expense, or appoint, employ, or pay any officer without the consent of the council or guardians by whom the committee were appointed, and where they are appointed by guardians, also of the Local Government Board, but with such consent may employ and pay any officer of such council or guardians. The expenses (if any) of a school attendance committee under this Act shall be paid,—

(1). Where the committee is appointed by a council, out of the borough fund or borough rate; and,

(2). Where the committee is appointed by a board of guardians, out of a fund to be raised out of the poor rate of the parishes in which the committee act for the purposes of this Act, according to the rateable value of each parish:

For the purpose of obtaining payment of such expenses, the board of guardians shall have the same powers as they have for the purpose of obtaining contributions to their common fund under the Acts relating to the relief of the poor.

CHAPTER 4.

FORMATION OF SCHOOL BOARD TO SUPERSEDE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE.

If a school board is formed for any district after 1876, the school attendance committee of the district shall continue to act for two months after the election of such board, and the bye-laws already in force shall so continue until revoked or altered by the board.

Section 36, Act of 1876.-Effect of subsequent appointment of school board.—Where a school board is appointed after the commencement of this Act for any school district the authority acting at the time of such appointment as the local authority under this Act shall continue so to act until the expiration of two months after the election of such board, and shall then cease so to act for such district; nevertheless, all byelaws previously made by the local authority shall continue in force, subject to being revoked or altered in respect of that district by the school board in pursuance of section seventy-four of the Elementary Education Act. 1870.

SECTION V.

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHAPTER 1.

RELIGIOUS INSPECTION OF VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS.

The managers of a public elementary school, not being a board school, may fix any two days in the year for the inspection or examination of the school, in respect of religious subjects, by an inspector other than one of Her Majesty's inspectors.

Due public notice of such inspection must be conspicuously affixed in the school. Religious observances may be practiced, and religious instruction given, during any time of such day, subject to the parent's right of withdrawal of his children.

Section 76, Act of 1870.-Inspection of voluntary schools by inspector not one of Her Majesty's inspectors.-Where the managers of any public elementary school not provided by a school board desire to have their school inspected or the scholars therein examined, as well in respect of religious as of other subjects, by an inspector other than one of Her Majesty's inspectors, such managers may fix a day or days, not exceeding two in any one year, for such inspection or examination.

The managers shall, not less than fourteen days before any day so fixed, cause public notice of the day to be given in the school, and notice in writing of such day to be conspicuously affixed in the school.

On any such day any religious observance may be practised, and any instruction in religious subjects given at any time during the meeting of the school, but any scholar who has been withdrawn by his parent from any religious observance, or instruction in religious subjects, shall not be required to attend the school on any such day.

CHAPTER 2.

PURCHASE OF LAND BY MANAGERS OF VOLUNTARY
SCHOOLS.

Should the managers of any public elementary school desire to purchase land as a site for any school, they may resort to the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, or to the School Sites Acts, all the clauses of which Acts are incorporated with the Education Acts (except that the compulsory clauses of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts can be put in force by a school board only). Conveyances may be in the form prescribed by the School Sites Acts, but must state that the lands are to be held in trust for the purposes of a public elementary school.

Section 21, Act of 1870.-Purchase of land by managers of public elementary school.-For the purpose of the purchase by the managers of any public elementary school of a school-house for such school, or a site for the same, "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and the Acts amending the same (a) (except so much as relates to the purchase of land otherwise than by agreement) shall be incorporated with this Act; and in construing those Acts for the purposes of this section the special Act shall be construed to mean this Act, and the promoters of the undertaking shall be construed to mean such managers, and land shall be construed to include any right over land.

The conveyance of any land so purchased may be in the form prescribed by the Schools Sites Acts (a), or any of them, with this modification, that the conveyance shall express that the land shall be held upon trust for the purposes of a public elementary school within the meaning of this Act, or some one of such purposes which may be specified, and for no other purpose whatever.

Land may be acquired under the Acts incorporated with this section, or under the School Sites Acts, or any of them, or partly under one and partly under another Act.

Any persons desirous of establishing a public elementary school shall be deemed to be managers for the purpose of this section if they obtain the approval of the Education Department to the establishment of such school.

(a) These Acts are given in full in the Appendix.