A.D. 1898. Amendment of 66 Education Amendment. portion of any week; but the absence of any child from school shall not from this cause in any such week exceed Two school-days: "IV. That there is no school which the child can attend within a radius of Two miles, or such greater distance as may from time to time be fixed by the Board of Advice for the District, measured from the residence of such child: "v. That the child has been educated up to the compulsory standard of education: Provided that this cause of exemption shall only apply to the case of a child who has attained the age of Eleven years: "VI. That the child has been exempted from attendance by the Board of Advice for the District, and that the period of such exemption has not expired. "(2.) For the purposes of this Act, attendance at school for Four hours in any One day or for Two hours before noon on any Two days, or for Two hours after noon on any Two days, shall respectively be deemed to be one school-day's attendance." 4 The words "the Consolidated Revenue Fund" in the Fourteenth line of Section Six of the said Act are hereby repealed, and the follow49 Vict. No. 15. ing words are inserted in lieu thereof:-"A fund which, in addition to moneys provided by Parliament from time to time, shall be devoted by the Minister to the building of schools or the purchasing or acquiring of land for school purposes. Order for payment of Fees enforced by distress only. Substitution for 49 Vict. No. 15. Maximum number to attend schools. Amendment of 49 Vict. No. 15. 5 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Act, any Order made for the recovery of any Fees under the said Act shall be enforced by distress only, and not by imprisonment. 6 Section Seventeen of the said Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following shall be deemed to be and may be cited as Section Seventeen of the said Act: "17-1.) It shall be lawful for the Minister to determine from time to time what shall be the maximum number of children allowed to attend any school.. "(2.) Whenever the number of children for whom the right to attend any school is claimed shall exceed the maximum number so determined, the prior right of attendance shall in the first place belong to the children whose homes are nearer to such school than to any other school; but no child of the age of Ten years who shall have been in attendance for Two years at a school shall be compelled to leave such school. 66 (3.) Where there is no other school within a distance of Five miles, no child shall be refused admission to or be entitled to claim exemption from attendance at any school by reason of the attendance of children at such school temporarily exceeding the said maximum.” 7-(1.) Sub-section 1. of Section Twenty-four of the said Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following shall be deemed to be and may be cited as Sub-section 1. of Section Twenty-four of the said Act: 66 "I. To allow the school buildings to be used for other than school purposes after the children are dismissed from school, or on days when no school is held therein, subject to the terms and conditions prescribed by the Regulations made under Education Amendment. this Act, the Board being held responsible for the safe A.D. 1898. 8 For the purpose of ascertaining the extent to which the provisions of the said Act are being complied with, it shall be lawful for the Minister of Education or for any Board of Advice to cause to be left with the parent or other person having the custody of any child or children resident within any district a notice in such form as may be prescribed, and such parent or other person shall fill up and supply in such form the information therein applied for within the time appointed therein. Any person neglecting or refusing to supply such information, or wrongfully filling in such form, shall on conviction forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding One Pound, to be enforced by distress only, and not by imprisonment. Minister or Board of Advice may require information as to attendance of children at school. 9 The proprietor, principal head master, or principal teacher of Proprietor, prinevery school for the education of children, not being a State School cipal head master, or Sunday School, shall record in a permanent register, to be or principal teacher of school, supplied by the Education Department, the daily attendance of each to keep record of child who attends his school, and such record shall be open to the inspec- daily attendance. tion of any Officer authorised by the Minister of Education to inspect such records; and any such proprietor, principal head master, or principal teacher who neglects to keep such record, or refuses to permit such Officer to inspect such record, shall be guilty of an offence against the said Act, and may be proceeded against by any person authorised by the Minister, and on conviction, before any Two Justices of the Peace, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Five Pounds, to be enforced by distress only, and not by imprisonment. 10 In all proceedings for the recovery of School Fees under Section Fourteen of the said Act, the attendance of any teacher for the purpose of proving such Fees to be due and owing shall not be neecssary, but the production of a Certificate purporting to be under the hand of such teacher, stating the number of attendances, the amount of fees due therefor, and that such amount is still unpaid, shall be deemed primá facie evidence of the facts therein contained and of the signature of such teacher. Any teacher wilfully making any false statement in such Certificate shall be deemed guilty of perjury. Certificate of teacher as to amount of Fees due to be primâ facie evidence. 11 This Act and the said Act shall be read and construed together Acts to be read as one Act. together. WILLIAM GRAHAME, AN ACT to further amend "The Crown Lands A.D. 1898. BE [29 October, 1898.] E it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1 This Act may be cited as "The Crown Lands Amendment Act, Short title. 1898." 2 In this Act, unless the context otherwise determines Interpretation. The said Act" shall mean "The Crown Lands Act, 1890." 54 Vict. No. 8. 3 The Act set forth in the Schedule hereto to the extent therein Repeal. mentioned is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything duly done thereunder. 4 It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown lands from Commissioner time to time to issue to any person a Lease of Crown Lands which may issue Timber may have been proclaimed by the Governor in Council a Timber Lease. Reserve under this Act for the purpose of obtaining timber therefrom for saw-milling purposes. Every such Lease shall be issued in respect of an area not exceeding Five thousand acres to any such person for any term not exceeding A.D. 1898. Applications to purchase timber land may be refused. Money required by said Act may be raised by Inscribed Stock. 59 Vict. No. 6. Acts to be read together. Crown Lands Amendment. Twenty-one years, and shall be subject to such regulations, conditions, and stipulations as may from time to time be prescribed; but no such Lease shall be granted for the taking of timber within Five miles of any Town situated in any Mining Field. 5 It shall be lawful for the Commissioner to decline to enter into a contract or refuse any application for the sale and purchase of any Crown land in any case in which the land selected or applied for is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, likely to be required as a timber reserve. 6 Whenever the Governor in Council is authorised by the said Act to raise any money by the issue and sale of Debentures for the purposes of the said Act, it shall be lawful for the Treasurer to borrow and receive all such money in the manner provided by "The Local Inscribed Stock Act, 1895.' 7 This Act and the said Act. and every Act amending the same, shall be read and construed together as one and the same Act. |