A Secretary of State may from time to time make, and when made revoke and vary, the forms of orders for sending a child to a day industrial school, and the manner in which children are to be sent to such school. If a Secretary of State is of opinion that, by reason of a change of circumstances or otherwise, a certified day industrial school ceases to be necessary or expedient for the proper training and control of the children of any class of population in the neighbourhood of that school, he may, after due notice, withdraw the certificate of the school, and thereupon such school shall cease to be a certified day industrial school. Provided, that the reasons for withdrawing such certificate shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within one month after notice of the withdrawal is given, if parliament be then sitting, or if not, within one month after the then next meeting of parliament. Section 17, Act of 1876.-Conditions of contribution to day industrial schools. 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. CHAPTER 7, PARLIAMENTARY GRANT. To public elementary schools (p. 172). To public elementary schools. The conditions of grants to public elementary schools are set forth in the new Code of the Education Department, but it is enacted by the Elementary Education Acts that those conditions shall be subject to the following provisoes :— 1. No parliamentary grant shall be given to any school which is not a public elementary school within the meaning of the Act of 1870 (sect. 96, Act of 1870). 2. No parliamentary grant shall, in future, be given towards the building, enlarging, improving, or fitting up any elementary school (sect. 96, Act of 1870). 3. No grant shall be made in respect of any instruction in religious subjects (sect. 97, Act of 1870). 4. After the 31 March, 1876 (a), the grant shall not exceed the amount of 17s. 6d. per child in average attendance, unless the income of the school from sources other than the parliamentary grant exceeds that amount, in which case it shall not exceed such income (sect. 19, Act of 1876). 5. Special additional parliamentary grants shall be paid to schools in thinly peopled districts (sect. 97, Act of 1870, and sect. 19, Act of 1876). 6. The income of the school shall be applied only to the purposes of a public elementary school (sect. 20, Act of 1876). The grant may be refused to a school in a school board district which has not previously been in receipt of a par (a) Until 31st March, 1876, the grant may not exceed the total income of the school derived from sources other than the parliamentary grant, liamentary grant, should the Education Department deem such school to be unnecessary (sect. 98, Act of 1870). Schools may become public elementary schools "notwithstanding any provisions contained in any instrument regulating the trusts or management" of such schools (sect. 99, Act of 1870). Section 96, Act of 1870.-Parliamentary grant to public elementary school only.-After the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, no parliamentary grant shall be made to any elementary school which is not a public elementary school within the meaning of this Act. No parliamentary grant shall be made in aid of building, enlarging, improving, or fitting up any elementary school, except in pursuance of a memorial duly signed, and containing the information required by the Education Department for enabling them to decide on the application, and sent to the Education Department on or before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy. Section 97, Act of 1870.-Conditions of annual parliamentary grant.The conditions required to be fulfilled by an elementary school in order to obtain an annual parliamentary grant shall be those contained in the minutes of the Education Department in force for the time being, and shall amongst other matters provide that after the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one : (1). Such grant shall not be made in respect of any instruction in religious subjects: (2). Such grant shall not for any year exceed the income of the school for that year which was derived from voluntary contributions, and from school fees, and from any sources other than the parliamentary grant (b): but such conditions shall not require that the school shall be in connexion with a religious denomination, or that religious instruction shall be given in the school, and shall not give any preference or advantage to any school on the ground that it is or is not provided by a school board: Provided that where the school board satisfy the Education Department that in any year ending the twenty-ninth of September the sum required for the purpose of the annual expenses of the school board of any school district, and actually paid to the treasurer of such board by the rating authority, amounted to a sum which would have been raised by a rate of threepence in the pound on the rateable value of such district, and any such rate would have produced less than twenty pounds, or less than seven shillings and sixpence per child of the number of children in average attendance at the public elementary schools provided by such school board, such school board shall be entitled, in addition to the annual parliamentary grant in aid of the public elementary schools provided by them, to such further sum out of moneys provided by parliament as, when added to the sum actually so paid by the rating authority, would, as the case may be, make up the sum of twenty pounds, or the sum of seven shillings and sixpence for each such child, but no attendance shall be reckoned for the purpose of calculating such average attendance unless it is an attendance as defined in the said minutes : Provided that no such minute of the Education Department not in force at the time of the passing of this Act shall be deemed to be in force until it has lain for not less than one month on the table of both Houses of Parliament. (b) Sub-section (2) will be repealed after 31 March, 1877. Section 19, Act of 1876.-Amendment of 33 & 34, Vict. c. 75, s. 97, as to conditions of annual parliamentary grant.-So much of section ninetyseven of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, as enacts that the conditions required to be fulfilled by an elementary school in order to obtain the annual parliamentary grant shall provide that the grant shall not for any year exceed the income of the school for that year which was derived from voluntary contributions and from school fees, and from any sources other than the parliamentary grant, shall be repealed as as from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven. After the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the conditions required to be fulfilled by an elementary school in order to obtain the annual parliamentary grant shall provide that (1). Such grant shall not in any year be reduced by reason of its excess above the income of the school if the grant do not exceed the amount of seventeen shillings and sixpence per child in average attendance at the school during that year, but shall not exceed that amount per child, except by the same sum by which the income of the school, derived from voluntary contributions, rates, school fees, endowments, and any source whatever other than the parliamentary grant exceeds the said amount per child; and (2). Where the population of the school district in which the school is situate, or the population within two miles, measured according to the nearest road, from the school is less than three hundred, and there is no other public elementary school recognized by the Education Department as available for the children of that district, or that population (as the case may be), a special parliamentary grant may be made annually to that school to the amount, if the said population exceeds two hundred, of ten pounds, and, if it does not exceed two hundred, of fifteen pounds; and (3). The said special grant shall be in addition to the ordinary annual parliamentary grant, and shall not be included in the calculation of that grant for the purpose of determining whether it does or not exceed the amount before in this section mentioned. Section 20, Act of 1876.-Conditions for obtaining parliamentary grants. -The conditions required to be fulfilled by schools in order to obtain annual parliamentary grants shall provide that the income of the schools shall be applied only for the purpose of public elementary schools. Section 98, Act of 1870.-Refusal of grant to unnecessary schools.—If the managers of any school which is situate in the district of a school board acting under this Act, and is not previously in receipt of an annual parliamentary grant, whether such managers are a school board or not, apply to the Education Department for a parliamentary grant, the Education Department may, if they think that such school is unnecessary, refuse such application. The Education Department shall cause to be laid before both Houses of Parliament in every year a special report stating the 'cases in which they have refused a grant under this section during the preceding year, and their reasons for each such refusal. Section 99, Act of 1870.—Power of schools to take parliamentary grants.— The managers of every elementary school shall have power to fulfil the conditions required in pursuance of this Act to be fulfilled in order to obtain a parliamentary grant, notwithstanding any provision contained in any instrument regulating the trusts or management of their school, and to apply such grant accordingly (a). To certified day industrial schools. A court of summary jurisdiction may send children to a certified day industrial school, and towards the custody, maintenance, and training of children, sent otherwise than by an attendance order, there shall be paid a parliamentary grant not exceeding one shilling per head per week. (a) The following section of the Act of 1876 applies to Scotland :— Section 53, Act of 1876.-Application of the Act to Scotland.-In the application of this Act to Scotland the following provision shall have effect: The provisions of this Act with respect to the conditions to be fulfilled by schools in order to obtain an annual parliamentary grant shall apply to Scotland. |