N.B.-This Book, on the child's admission to a Certified Efficient School, is to be given to the teacher, who will keep it, and, at the end of every year, make an entry of the child's attendances (after 5 years of age), and progress (after 7) during the year. The book will be given back, duly made up, when the child leaves the school; and the child may claim the use of it, for reasonable time, when qualified for, and seeking, half-time employment.

1 School Board, or School Attendance Committee.

2 Borough, Parish, Union, or Sanitary Authority.

3 Signature of Clerk or other officer of the Local Authority of the District, or of principal teacher of a Certified Efficient School.

State the office of the person who signs; and name of Local Authority, or of School.

As to the alterations to be made when the rule requiring a registrar's certificate is waived, see p. 474.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT.

I. No person may take into employment a child under 10 years of age. II. Between 10 and 14 years of age, the conditions of a child's employment are fixed

A. In Districts with Bye-laws, by the bye-laws of each district.

These affect children up to 13 years of age: between 13 and 14, a child falls under the general provisions of the Act of 1876, quoted below.

B. In other Districts,

1. In factories and workshops, by the special Acts regulating such employment.

2. In general labour, by the Elementary Education Act, 1876, according to which,

No child may be employed who does not hold a certificate of proficiency, or previous attendance at school, according to the following standards.

CERTIFICATES OF BIRTH.

ORDER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.

TO ALL SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRARS, AND REGISTRARS OF BIRTHS
AND DEATHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES;

And to all others whom it may concern.

Whereas, by Section 25 of "The Elementary Education Act, 1876," it is enacted as follows:

"Where the age of any child is required to be ascertained or proved for the purposes of this Act, or for any purpose connected with the elementary education or employment in labour of such child, any person on presenting a written requisition in such form and containing such particulars as may be from time to time prescribed by the Local Government Board, and on payment of such fee, not exceeding one shilling, as the Local Government Board from time to time fix, shall be entitled to obtain a certified copy under the hand of the registrar or superintendent registrar of the entry in the register under the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1874, of the birth of the child named in the requisition."

Now therefore, we, the Local Government Board, in pursuance of the powers given by the Statutes in that behalf, hereby Order as follows:

Art. 1. The requisition' to be made to entitle any person to obtain a certified copy of an entry of a registry of birth under the section above cited, shall be in the Form set forth in the Schedule to this Order; and the Fee to be paid to the Registrar or Superintendent Registrar shall be sixpence for each such copy furnished by him under that section.

SCHEDULE.

THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT, 1876.

Requisition for a certified copy of an entry of birth for the purposes of the above Act, or for any purpose connected with the elementary education or employment in labour of a child.

To the Superintendent Registrar or Registrar of Births and Deaths having the custody of the register in which the birth of the under-mentioned child is registered :

I, the undersigned, hereby demand, for the purposes above mentioned, or some

As to this requisition, see notes to sec. 25 of 39 & 40 Vict., c. 79, p. 264.

or one of them, a Certificate of the Birth of the child named in the subjoined Schedule.

Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this Twenty-second day of February, in the year One Thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.

JOHN LAMBERT,

Secretary.

G. SCLATER-BOOTH,

President.