Education (Scotland) Act 1883
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1883 c. 56 |
| Year | 1883 |
Education (Scotland) Act, 1883
(46 & 47 Vict.) CHAPTER 56.
An Act to amend the Laws relating to Education in Scotland, and for other purposes connected therewith.
[25th August 1883]
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:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theEducation (Scotland) Act, 1883, and this Act and the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, and the Education (Scotland) Act, 1878, may be cited together as the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1883.
2 Commencement and application of Act.
2. This Act shall, except in so far as otherwise provided, come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and shall apply to Scotland only.
3 Definitions.
3. The term ‘Education Acts’ in this Act means the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, the Education (Scotland) Act, 1878, and this and any other Act amending the same.
In the ‘Education Acts’ sheriff includes sheriff substitute.
A court of summary jurisdiction under this Act shall consist of a sheriff, sitting either in the ordinary sheriff court or at any place where circuit courts are held for the determination of small debt causes, or one or more justices of the peace sitting in open court, or the provost or bailie of any royal or parliamentary burgh, or a magistrate of police of any police burgh or a judge of police sitting in the police court.
4 Amendment of s. 69 of the Education \(Scotland) Act, 1872.
4. Section sixty-nine of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, shall be read and have effect as if it provided that it shall be the duty of every parent to provide efficient elementary education in reading, writing, and arithmetic for his children who are between five and thirteen years of age, and who have not obtained a certificate of ability to read and write and of a knowledge of elementary arithmetic under section seventy-three of the said Act as amended by this Act, and also for any of his children between thirteen and fourteen years of age who have not obtained such certificate.
5 Amendment of s. 70 of the Education \(Scotland) Act, 1872, and s. 22 of the Education \(Scotland) Act, 1878.
5. Section seventy of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, and section twenty-two of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1878, shall be amended as follows:—
(1) (1.) Section seventy of the first-mentioned Act shall be read and have effect as if it did not contain the words ‘and are failing and omitting’ and the words ‘and is grossly and’.
(2) (2.) Section twenty-two of the second-mentioned Act shall be read and have effect as if for the word ‘thirteen’ therein the word ‘fourteen’ were substituted, and as if after the words ‘the said fees’ therein the words ‘at any public or inspected school selected by the parent or, failing such selection, appointed by the sheriff’ were inserted.
6 Provisions as to children employed in labour.
6. From and after the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, notwithstanding the provisions of section five of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1878, and of any Act of Parliament regulating the education of children employed in labour, the said Acts shall be read and have effect as if they provided that it shall not be lawful for any person to take into his employment a child being of the age of ten years and not more than fourteen years, unless such child (1) has passed the third standard prescribed by the minutes of the Scotch Education Department regulating the administration of the parliamentary grant for education in Scotland for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, or a corresponding standard prescribed by the said minutes for any subsequent year, and is attending, a public or inspected school in accordance with the provisions of the twenty-third section of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, or of any minute of the Scotch Education Department fixing the number of the attendances at school to be required of such children; or (2) has obtained a certificate of ability to read and write, and of a knowledge of elementary arithmetic under the seventy third section of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, as amended by the immediately succeeding section.
Nothing in this section shall make it lawful to...
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