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A.D. 1933.

PART I. -cont.

from

receiving education.

11 & 12 Geo. 5 c. 51.

Exposing children

under seven

to risk of burning.

[CH. 12.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[23 GEO. 5.]

child is totally exempted from school attendance or that the child is not, by being so taken with him, prevented from receiving efficient elementary education, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding with costs twenty shillings :

Provided that this provision shall not apply to a child in a canal boat for whose education provision is made under section fifty of the Education Act, 1921.

(2) Any constable who finds a person wandering from place to place and taking a child with him may,

if he has reasonable ground for believing that the person is guilty of an offence under this section, apprehend him without a warrant, and may take the child to a place of safety in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(3) Without prejudice to the requirements of the Education Act, 1921, as to school attendance or to proceedings thereunder, this section shall not, during the months of April to September inclusive, apply to any child whose parent or guardian is engaged in a trade or business of such a nature as to require him to travel from place to place, if a certificate has been obtained that the child has made not less than two hundred attendances at a public elementary school during the months of October to March immediately preceding.

(4) The Board of Education shall have power to make regulations as to the issue of certificates of attend- ance for the purposes of the last foregoing subsection, and any such regulations shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after they are made.

11. If any person who has attained the age of sixteen years, having the custody, charge or care of any child under the age of seven years, allows the child to be in any room containing an open fire grate not sufficiently protected to guard against the risk of his being burnt or scalded without taking reasonable precautions against that risk, and by reason thereof the child is killed or suffers serious injury, he shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds :

Provided that neither this section, nor any pro- ceedings taken thereunder, shall affect any liability of any such person to be proceeded against by indictment for any indictable offence.

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