Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948

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Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1948.

(11 & 12 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 40.

An Act to amend the Education Acts, 1944 and 1946, the Endowed Schools Acts, 1869 to 1908, the provisions of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, as to children incapable of receiving education, and the provision of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, as to the minimum age of employment.

[30th June 1948]

Be it enacted by the King'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:—

S-1 Provisions as to transfer of powers conferred by the Charitable Trusts Acts, etc.

1 Provisions as to transfer of powers conferred by the Charitable Trusts Acts, etc.

(1) Powers conferred by the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1939, or other enactments, and vested for the time being in the Charity Commissioners as respects endowments or trusts of any class other than the educational endowments and trusts mentioned in the Orders in Council made under the Board of Education Act, 1899 (which, as respects those educational endowments and trusts, effected a general transfer to the Minister's predecessor of powers then vested in the said Commissioners) may by Order in Council be transferred to the Minister, or be made exercisable by him, as respects all or any endowments or trusts of any such other class as aforesaid, in so far as it appears to His Majesty in Council to be expedient so to provide having regard to the relation between the purposes of the endowments or trusts to be dealt with by the Order and the purposes of endowments or trusts as respects which the same or associated powers are already vested in or exercisable by the Minister by virtue of the said Act of 1899.

(2) If it appears to His Majesty in Council to be expedient that any powers formerly vested in the Charity Commissioners as respects all or any endowments or trusts of any class, and for the time being vested as respects them in the Minister, should as respects them cease to be vested in him and be vested in the said Commissioners, he may by Order in Council make provision accordingly.

(3) An Order in Council made under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order in Council.

(4) A draft of any Order in Council under this section shall be laid before Parliament.

(5) The Orders in Council made under the Board of Education Act, 1899, shall continue in operation, subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section.

(6) The preceding provisions of this section shall be in substitution for subsection (2) of section two of the Education Act, 1944 (in this Act referred to as ‘the principal Act’).

S-2 Extension of the Endowed Schools Acts to education generally in lieu of education of boys and girls, and to modern endowments.

2 Extension of the Endowed Schools Acts to education generally in lieu of education of boys and girls, and to modern endowments.

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (5) and (6) of this section, the Endowed Schools Acts, 1869 to 1908 (which confer powers as respects educational endowments by schemes made thereunder to alter or add to existing trusts and to make new trusts and to consolidate or divide endowments) shall have effect subject to the amendments thereof specified in this section, and to the consequential and minor amendments thereof specified in the First Schedule to this Act.

(2) The endowments to which the said Acts apply as educational endowments shall compose endowments for any educational purposes in lieu of being confined to endowments for the purposes of education at school of boys and girls or of exhibitions.

(3) Any limitation on the power to make schemes under the said Acts imposed thereby, whether expressly or by implication, by reference to the time of the giving of an endowment or part of an endowment, including the requirement imposed by paragraph (1) of section fourteen of the Endowed Schools Act, 1869, of assent of the governing body of an endowment to a scheme where the original gift was less than fifty years before the commencement of that Act, shall cease to have effect, and the said power shall extend to endowments and parts of endowments whenever given, whether before or after the commencement of that Act or of this Act, so however that such assent as is mentioned in the said paragraph (1) shall be required for the making of a scheme as to an endowment or part of an endowment given as mentioned in that paragraph less than fifty years before the time of the making of the scheme.

(4) In accordance with the last preceding subsection, references to the time of the making of a scheme shall be substituted for the references to the commencement, or to the passing, of the said Act of 1869, or to the first day of January, 1869, in that Act and in sections seven and eight of the Endowed Schools Act, 1873:

Provided that this subsection shall not have effect as to the reference to the passing of the said Act of 1869 in section fifty-five of that Act (which provides against the acquisition after the passing of that Act of vested interests in endowments).

(5) No provision shall be made by a scheme as to, or as to the governing body of, an endowment which constitutes or forms part of the endowment of—

(a ) a university, a university college or a college of a university, or

(b ) a school not maintained by a local education authority,

other than such provision, if any, as could have been made if the amendments of the said Acts of 1869 to 1908 specified in this section and in the First Schedule to this Act had not been enacted.

For the purposes of this subsection—

(i) the expression ‘college of a university’ includes, in the case of a university organised on a collegiate basis, a constituent college or other society recognised by the university, and, in the case of London University, a college incorporated in the university or a school of the university;

(ii) the reference to the endowment of a university, college or school shall be construed as including a reference to any endowment which, or the income whereof, is applicable solely for the purposes of education of persons at the university, college or school or for purposes ancillary thereto.

(6) No provision shall be made by a scheme as to, or as to the governing body of, an endowment which, or the income whereof, is applicable solely or mainly for the purposes of education for imparting professional skill or learning, unless the governing body of the endowment assent to the scheme.

(7) The Welsh Intermediate Education Act, 1889 , shall cease to have effect.

S-3 Allocation between primary and secondary education of children between ten and a half and twelve years old.

3 Allocation between primary and secondary education of children between ten and a half and twelve years old.

(1) The definitions of primary and secondary education in subsection (1) of section eight of the principal Act shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(2) In paragraph (a ) of the said subsection (1), which defines primary education, for the words ‘primary education, that is to say, full-time education suitable to the requirements of junior pupils’, there shall be substituted the words ‘primary education, that is to say, full-time education suitable to the requirements of junior pupils who have not attained the age of ten years and six months, and full-time education suitable to the requirements of junior pupils who have attained that age and whom it is expedient to educate together with junior pupils who have not attained that age’.

(3) At the end of paragraph (b ) of the said subsection (1), which defines secondary education, there shall be inserted the words ‘and full-time education suitable to the requirements of junior pupils who have attained the age of ten years and six months and whom it is expedient to educate together with senior pupils’.

S-4 Provisions as to pupils becoming registered pupils at, and being withdrawn from, schools.

4 Provisions as to pupils becoming registered pupils at, and being withdrawn from, schools.

(1) A local education authority shall have power to make arrangements with respect to a primary school maintained by them, not being a school which is for the time being organised for the provision of both primary and secondary education, under which any junior pupils who have attained the age of ten years and six months and who are registered pupils at the school may be required to be withdrawn therefrom for the purpose of receiving secondary education.

(2) The provision of section eight of the principal Act which renders it the duty of every local education authority to secure that there shall be available for their area sufficient schools for providing primary and secondary education shall not be construed as imposing any obligation on proprietors of schools to admit children as registered pupils otherwise than at the beginning of a school term, except as regards admission at a school during the currency of a school term of a child who was prevented from entering the school at the beginning of the term—

(a ) by his being in or by other circumstances beyond his parent's control; or

(b ) by his parent's having been then resident at a place whence the school was not accessible with reasonable facility;

and, notwithstanding anything in section thirty-six of the principal Act, the parent of a child shall not be under any duty to cause him to receive full-time education during any period during which, having regard to the preceding provisions of this subsection, it is not practicable for the...

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