child shall be required to obtain from the School Medical Inspector, or other physician approved by the Board, a certificate of physical fitness for such work. Such employment certificate shall be good only for employment with the person or firm mentioned in said certificate and only for the work therein specified and shall only be issued on condition that the child obtaining it attend the Evening Technical or other classes approved by the Board or conducted under the regulations of the Council of Public Instruction while such classes are in session. On violation of any of these conditions the certificate may be cancelled by the Board or the official issuing same. Section 124, 9. Sub-section (2) of Section 124 of the said Sub-section (2) Education Act is amended by inserting in the second amended. line after the word "shall" the words "on conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate." 10. Section 142 of said Chapter 9 is repealed and Section 142, rethe following substituted therefor: pealed; substituted. ance officers. 142. (1) (a) The Board shall appoint an officer School attendwho shall, subject to the rules and regulations made under this Act, enforce the provisions of Parts II and III of the Education Act in the school section for which he is appointed. (b) every school attendance officer shall have all the powers, privileges, immunities and authority of a constable; (c) a School Board may appoint and employ as a school attendance officer a person acting as a school attendance officer in another school section, or accept and co-operate with a person appointed as a school attendance officer by a Municipality or another Board; (d) the Council of any Municipality, on the request of a majority of the School sections within it by resolutions of their respective boards or trustees, may appoint a school attendance officer for the sections or for any group of sections within the Municipality, and pay such salaries as may be determined by such Municipal Council; Rules and regulations. Chief attendance officer. Parts II and III except Section 142, amended. Section 148, Part III, (e) a school attendance officer appointed by any Municipality shall have within each section of such Municipality all the powers, privileges, immunities and authority of a school attendance officer appointed by a Board for the section, provided the Board accepts the Municipal officer instead of appointing its own officer. (2) The Council may make rules and regulations: (a) prescribing the qualifications and duties of school attendance officers; (b) prescribing notices to be given and the returns to be made by school attendance officers, and the time and manner of giving or making the same; (c) prescribing the forms to be used underParts II and III of the Education Act; (d) prescribing details generally for the efficient carrying out of the provisions of Parts II and III of the Education Act. (3) The Council may appoint an officer in the public service, to be known as the chief school attendance officer, whose duty shall be under the direction of the Council and subject to the regulations made hereunder, to direct the enforcement of Parts II and III of the Education Act throughout the Province and in that behalf to have such direction and supervision of school attendance officers as may be prescribed by this Act, and the regulations made thereunder. (4) Parts II and III of said Chapter 9, except Section 142, are amended by striking out therefrom the words "truant officer" wherever the same occurs, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "school attendance officer.' Sub-section (c) 11. By adding in Part III, Section 148, to Subsection (c) the words: but if the school section at its annual meeting shall have decided by a majority vote a preference for the definition of "child" in Cities amended. and Towns,--namely, "Six to sixteen years"-in any such school section the word "child" shall mean a person from six to sixteen years of age. 12. Clause (a) of Section 12 of said Chapter 9 is clause (a), repealed, and the following substituted therefor: 13. (a) to make alterations in the existing boundaries of any section, to create new sections either where none previously existed or by uniting or subdividing existing sections, and to apportion for the purpose of rating and assessment all dyke lands within the District either to the section to which such dyke lands geographically belong, or to the section in which the owner resides, provided that in no case shall any creation of a new section or subdivision of an old section or union of two or more sections or any apportionment of dyke lands take effect until the same is approved by the Council. Section 12, re pealed; substituted. Section 14 of the said Chapter 9 is repealed, Section 14, reand the following substituted therefor: In all cases of the alteration of the boundary of sections, the sub-division of old sections, the creation of new sections or the apportionment of dyke lands due regard shall be had to the regulations made by the Council to the number of children in each section, and the ability of such section to support an efficient school by the payment of at least the minimum salary of a teacher fixed under the regulation of the Council. pealed; substituted. 16, repealed; 14. Sub-section (1) of Section 16 of said Chapters. s. (1). Section 9 is repealed, and the following substituted therefor: substituted. (1) No such alteration, sub-division, union or apportionment shall take effect until the beginning of the next ensuing school year. Sub-clause 2 of Clause (b) of Sub-section (1) of Sub-clause 2, Section 73, as amended, is repealed, and the following Clause (b), s. 8. substituted therefor: (2) Dyke lands situated in the District and apportioned to the section by the District Board. (1), Sec. 73, res pealed; substi tuted. CHAPTER 53. Sub-section added to Sec. An Act to Amend the Coal Mines Regulation Act. (Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1923). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Section 23 of Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1918, 25, Chap. 10, "The Coal Mines Regulation Act," is amended by adding immediately after Sub-section (4) thereof the following sub-section. Acts 1918. Rule 7, Section 50, amended. (5) Notwithstanding any of the foregoing or subsequent provisions of this Act, any person holding a certificate of competency as manager, under ground manager, or overman, shall be considered to be the holder of a certificate of competency as a mine examiner. 2. Rule 7 of Section 50 of said Chapter 10 is amended by striking out all the words therein after the word "Commissioner" in the third line of said rule. 1918, repealed; CHAPTER 54. An Act to Amend the Coal Mines Regulation Act. (Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1923). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: Sec. 38, Ch. 10; 1. Section 38 of Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1918, substituted. "The Coal Mines Regulation Act," is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor: 38. (1) No boy under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in or about any mine. (2) Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with or permits any person to contravene or fail to comply with this section, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and in case of any such contravention or non-compliance by any person whomsoever, the owner and agent shall each be guilty of an offence against this Act, unless he proves that he has taken all reasonable means to prevent such contravention or non-compliance by publishing, and to the best of his power enforcing, the next preceding sub-section. tion 50, repealsubstitut 2. Rule 21 of Section 50 of the said Act is repealed, Rule 21, Secand the following substituted therefor: Rule 21. The roof and sides of every travelling road and working place shall be made secure, and every travelling road shall be of adequate height and width and if the height or width in such road appears to the inspector to be inadequate he may require that the height or width be increased to such .an extent as he thinks proper, and the owner, agent or manager shall comply with the request, unless he disputes the reasonableness thereof, in which case the dispute shall be settled by arbitration in the manner provided in Section 34, Sub-sections 2 and 3 of said Chapter 10, for the decision of objections under said section, and the award made shall be complied with. No person, unless appointed for the purpose of exploring or repairing, shall be required or allowed to travel or work in any such travelling road or working place which is not so made secure. 2. Every road on which a horse or other animal is used underground or by which it has to pass to get to its work, shall be of sufficient dimensions to allow the horse or other animal to pass without rubbing itself or its harness against the roof or sides of said road or against any bar or prop supporting the said roof or sides. ed; ed. 3. Rule 26 of said Section 50 is amended by adding Rule 26, Secat the end thereof the following: Where mechanical hoisting or lowering appliances are used in a mine the brake straps on drums shall be lined with asbestos or other noninflammable material. tion 50, tion 51, repeal 4. Rule 14 of Section 51 of said Act, as the same Rule 14, Secwas added by Section 1 of Chapter 70 of the Acts of ed. 1920, is repealed. |