Day Industrial Schools (Scotland) Act 1893
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Day Industrial Schools (Scotland) Act, 1893
(56 & 57 Vict.) CHAPTER 12.
An Act to make provision for the establishment of Day Industrial Schools in Scotland and to amend the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1883.
[9th June 1893]
W HEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the education of poor and neglected children and for the establishment of day industrial schools in Scotland, and for that purpose to amend and extend the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1883:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theDay Industrial Schools (Scotland) Act, 1893, and this Act and the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1883, shall be construed together as one Act, and may be cited as the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1893.
2 Application.
2. This Act shall apply to Scotland only.
Day Industrial Schools
3 Establishment, &c. of day industrial schools.
(1)3.—(1.) If a Secretary of State is satisfied that, owing to the circumstances of any class of population in any parish or burgh, a school in which industrial training, elementary education, and one or more meals a day, but not lodging, are, provided for the children, is necessary or expedient for the proper training and control of the children of such class, he may, in like manner as under the Industrial Schools Act, 1866 , certify any such school (in this Act referred to as a day industrial school) in the neighbourhood of the said population to be a certified day industrial school.
(2) (2.) Any child authorised by the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, to be sent to a certified industrial school may, if the court before whom the child is brought think it expedient, be sent to a certified day industrial school; any child sent to a certified day industrial school by an order of a court (other than an attendance order) may during the period specified in the order be there detained during such hours as may be authorised by the rules of the school approved by the said Secretary of State.
(3.) (a. ) A school board shall have the same power of establishing and maintaining certified day industrial schools as they have of establishing and maintaining certified industrial schools under section forty-one of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872 , and the expense of maintaining such schools, including industrial training and meals, shall form a proper charge on the school fund.
Provided that for that purpose they may acquire by purchase, or take on lease, any existing schools and teachers' houses, together with any land used or suitable to be used in connexion therewith, without the restriction imposed by section thirty-seven of the said Act.
(b. ) A school board may contribute such sums of money and on such conditions as it may think fit towards the establishment, building, alteration, or management of a certified industrial school or certified day industrial school, or the purchase of land required for such a school, or the support of the inmates thereof.
(c. ) For the purposes of this Act two or more school boards, whether of parishes or burghs, with the consent of a Secretary of State, may combine and agree together to establish and maintain a certified industrial school, or a certified day industrial school, or both common to such parishes or burghs.
(4) (4.) In the case of any complaint under section nine of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1883 , a court of summary jurisdiction may order a child to attend a certified day industrial school in the same manner and under the same conditions as such court is empowered by that section to order a child to attend a public or inspected school.
(5) (5.) The county council of any, county or the magistrates of any burgh may contribute to any certified day industrial school on the same terms as they may contribute to any industrial school under section sixty-seven of the Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1877 .
(6) (6.) There may be contributed out of moneys provided by Parliament towards the custody, industrial training, elementary education, and meals of children sent by an order of a court other than an attendance order to a certified day industrial school such sums not exceeding one shilling per head per week, and on such conditions as a Secretary...
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