LOW.U.K.

625

H

A

HANDY-BOOK

OF

Elementary Education Law,

COMPRISING THE COMPLETE TEXT OF

THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACTS,

1870, 1873, and 1876,

CLASSIFIED UNDER SUBJECT HEADS;

WITH

THE INCORPORATED ACTS, ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS, INDEX, &c.

(For the use of School Boards, School Attendance Committees, Her Majesty's
Inspectors of Schools and of Factories, and the Managers and
Teachers of Public Elementary Schools.)

OTHECA:

BY

HENRY JAMES GIBBS;

AND

JOHN WILLIAM EDWARDS,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW;

Authors of "The School Board Election Manual:" "The New Code of the Education
Department, 1876, with Notes, &c.;" "The Code of the Scotch Education
Department, with Notes, &c.," &c.

LONDON:

SHAW, SONS & CAMERON, 170, FLEET STREET, E.C.,
Publishers and School Board Furnishers.

LONDON: PRINTED BY SHAW AND SONS, FETTER LANE.

PREFACE.

THE Acts which have for their object the provision of Elementary Education in England and Wales, are the Elementary Education Acts, 1870, 1873, and 1876.

The administration of the Acts of 1870 and 1873 will shortly have effected the complete provision of elementary school accommodation throughout every school district in the country; and the Act of 1876, by securing "the fulfilment of parental responsibility" in relation to the education of children, will gradually fill the schools.

The Editors, having compiled Manuals relating to the Education Acts and to the English and Scotch Education Codes, have been requested to prepare, for the assistance of School Boards, School Attendance Committees, and Managers of Voluntary Schools, the present edition of the Acts.

In order to render it as convenient and useful as possible, they have brought together all the clauses of the Acts relating to the same subject. Thus, under "Law as to the Employment and Education of Children," "School Districts," "School Supply," "Constitution and Election of School Boards," "Powers of School Boards," "Constitution and Duties of School Attendance Committees," "Powers of