[23 GEO. 5.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[CH. 12.]

Enactment

11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 51.

Education

1921.

Act,

"Proceedings

on disobe.

dience of

order of court for attendance at school.

Amendment.

substituted the words "if the case was

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one in which the court had power to make an order sending him to an approved school and he is still under the age of seventeen years.'

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For section forty-five there shall be substituted the following section-

45.—(1) Where a school attendance order is not complied with, without any reasonable excuse, a court of summary jurisdiction, on complaint made by the local education authority, may, if they think fit, order as follows:-

(a) in the first case of non-compliance if the parent of the child does not appear, or appears and fails to satisfy the court that he has used all reason- able efforts to enforce compliance with the order, the court may impose a fine not exceeding with the costs twenty shillings; but if the parent satisfies the court that he has used all reasonable efforts as aforesaid, the court may, without inflicting a fine, order the child to be sent to an approved school or to be committed to the care of a fit person in accord- ance with the provisions of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933; and

(b) in the second or any subsequent case of non-compliance with the order, the court may order the child to be sent to an approved school or to be committed to the care of a fit person in accordance with the provisions of the Children and Young Persons Act. 1933, and may further in their dis. cretion inflict any such fine as afore- said, or they may for each such non- compliance inflict any such fine as aforesaid without ordering the child to be so sent or committed as aforesaid :

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A.D. 1933.

3RD SCH.

-cont.

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