Education of Blind and Deafmute Children (Scotland) Act 1890

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1890 c. 43


Education of Blind and Deafmute Children (Scotland) Act, 1890

(53 & 54 Vict.) CHAPTER 43.

An Act to amend the Law in regard to the Education of Blind and Deaf-mute Children in Scotland.

[14th August 1890]

B E it 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:

S-1 Short title and construction.

1 Short title and construction.

1. This Act may be cited as theEducation of Blind and Deafmute Children (Scotland) Act, 1890; and shall be construed as one with the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1883.

S-2 Extent and commencement of Act.

2 Extent and commencement of Act.

2. This Act shall extend to Scotland only, and shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

S-3 Duty of school board, where parent unable, to provide education, &c., for blind and deaf-mute children. Procedure for enforcement of duty.

3 Duty of school board, where parent unable, to provide education, &c., for blind and deaf-mute children. Procedure for enforcement of duty.

3. If the parent of a blind or deaf-mute child between five and sixteen years of age is from poverty unable to pay for the education of such child as herein-after mentioned, it shall be the duty of the school board of the parish or burgh in which such parent resides, to provide out of the school fund at rates to be approved of by the Scotch Education Department for the efficient elementary education of such child in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and for his industrial training either in a school belonging to such school board, or in some other school or institution approved of by the Scotch Education Department; and where necessary the school board, shall be bound to provide for the boarding of the child at some place approved of by the school board, and for the transit of such child to and from such school or institution or place, at rates to be approved of by the Scotch Education Department.

Provided that—

(1) (1.) Where a school board making any payment in pursuance of this section is not the school board of the parish in which the parent of any such child, as aforesaid, has his legal settlement in terms of the Act eighth and ninth Victoria, chapter eighty-three, it shall be entitled to relief in respect of any such payment against the school board of the parish in which such parent has his legal...

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