Education (Scotland) Act 1901
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Education (Scotland) Act, 1901
(1 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 9.
An Act to regulate the Employment and Attendance of Children at School in Scotland.
[9th August 1901]
B E 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:
1 Parents to provide efficient elementary education for their children.
1. 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 fourteen years of age.
2 School attendance.
2. It shall not be lawful for any person to take into his employment any child (1) who is under the age of twelve years, or (2) who, being of the age of twelve years and not more than fourteen years, has not obtained exemption from the obligation to attend school from the school board of the district in the manner provided in the next following section; nor shall any child (1) who is under the age of twelve years, or (2) who, being of the age of twelve years and not more than fourteen years, has not been exempted from the obligation to attend school in manner aforesaid, be employed in any casual employment, as defined by section six of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1878, after nine o'clock at night from the first day of April to the first day of October, and after seven o'clock at night from the first day of October to the first day of April.
Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent any employer from employing any child who is lawfully employed by him or by any other person at the date of the commencement of this Act.
3 Power to grant partial exemption from school attendance on conditions.
3. It shall be lawful for any school board, where after due inquiry in each case the circumstances seem to justify such exemption, to grant exemption from the obligation to attend school to individual children over twelve years of age, for such time and upon such conditions, if any, as to the amount and manner of further attendance at school until the age of fourteen, as the school board shall think fit; and such exemption shall exempt the parent of such child from any prosecution or other...
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