§ 3. In the Education of Blind and Deaf-mute Children (Scotland) Act, 1890—
§ In Section three, for the words "sixteen years" there shall be substituted the words eighteen years."
§ 4. In the Education (Scotland) Act, 1908—
- (a) For paragraph (3) of Section three there shall be substituted the following paragraph:
- "In bringing opportunities for education within easier reach of children in outlying parts of their education area,
3092 either by providing means of conveyance, or by paying travelling expenses for teachers or pupils, or by providing lodging or board and lodging in convenient proximity to a school, or by defraying the cost of such means of conveyance or lodging or board and lodging, or otherwise, on such terms and conditions in every case as having regard to all the circumstances (including the circumstances of the parents of the children) the authority consider reasonable."
- "In bringing opportunities for education within easier reach of children in outlying parts of their education area,
- (b) The expenses which may be sanctioned by minutes of the Department under paragraph (7) of Section three shall include—
- (i) travelling expenses necessarily incurred in attending meetings of an education authority or any committee thereof;
- (ii) an allowance at uniform rates to be prescribed by the Department in respect of other personal expenses necessarily incurred and time necessarily lost from ordinary employment in attending such meetings; and
- (iii) contributions by any education authority to any association of such authorities concerned in the consideration of educational questions.
§ 5. The Department may by Order at any time after the passing of this Act make such further adaptations in the provisions of any Act (including any local Act and any Provisional Order duly confirmed) as may seem to them necessary to make those provisions conform with the provisions of this Act, and any Order so made shall operate as if enacted in this Act.
§ Lords Amendments:
§
At the end of paragraph (3), insert the words
and in Section five the words 'except in the case of a deaf-mute child under seven years of age' shall be omitted.
—Agreed to.
§
Insert as a new paragraph:
4. In the Employment of Children Act, 1903, in Sub-sections (1) and (2) of Section five, for the words 'age of sixteen' there shall be substituted the words 'age of seventeen.'
§ —Agreed to.
§
In paragraph (4, b, i), at the end, insert the words,
or meetings of a local advisory council.
§ Lords Amendment agreed to.
§
In paragraph (4), insert as a new sub-paragraph:
(c) In Section five, for the words 'age of sixteen years' there shall be substituted the words 'close of the school session in which they attain the age of sixteen years.'
—Agreed to.
§
In paragraph (5), leave out the words "and any Order so made shall operate as if enacted in this Act," and insert instead thereof the words
Any Order so made by the Department shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith; and unless an Address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after the Order
| 53 & 54 Vict., c. 43 | The Education of Blind and Deaf-Mute Children (Scotland) Act, 1890 | In Section five the words "except in the case of a deaf-mute child under seven years of age." |
§ —Agreed to.
§ The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.
§ Whereupon, it being after Half-past Eleven of the clock, Mr. SPEAKER 3094 is laid before it, praying that the Order may be annulled, the Order shall have effect as if enacted in this Act."
§ —Agreed to.