§ MR. GRANTHAMasked the Vice President of the Council of Education, 505 Whether it is a correct interpretation of the existing Code that no child can be examined who has not made twenty weeks' attendance in the year in the school in which the examination is being held; and, if so, whether children are not always precluded from being examined whose parents are obliged to move from one parish to another at stated intervals every year, and to reside in the parish where the examination takes place for a less period than twenty weeks every year; and, whether he will introduce some alterations as will avoid such difficulty in the future?
§ MR. MUNDELLASir, the Code requires, not that a scholar shall have attended 20 weeks in the year, but that his name shall have been on the books of the school for the last 22 weeks that the school has been open. This requirement is made to secure that the scholars upon whose examination a grant depends shall have been under instruction in the school for a reasonable time previous to the examination. But the requirement does not apply at all to children seeking examination for the purpose of obtaining a labour certificate. Such children need not even be scholars of the school where they are examined.