26/11/1924: Reformatory and Industrial Schools (Amendment) Order, 1924) (No. O.S. 2 Of 1924)

REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1924) (No. O.S. 2 of 1924)

WHEREAS by sub-section (1) of Section 75 of the Children Act, 1908 as applied to Ireland by sub-section (3) of Section 133 of the same Act it is enacted that the parent or other person liable to maintain a youthful offender or child ordered to be sent to or detained in a certified school shall, if able to do so, contribute to his maintenance therein a sum not exceeding such sum as may be declared by Order of the Lord Lieutenant in Council to represent approximately the average cost of maintenance of youthful offenders or children in the class of school to which such school belongs in the locality in which such school is situate ;

AND WHEREAS by Order of the Lord Lieutenant in Council made on the 23rd day of April, 1909, it was ordered and declared that the following sums represent approximately the average cost of maintenance of youthful offenders or children in certified schools throughout Ireland, namely, the sum of six shillings by the week in the case of Reformatory Schools, and five shillings by the week in the case of Industrial Schools ;

AND WHEREAS by Section 10 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) it is enacted that wherever it is provided in any British Statute that any act or thing shall or may be made or done by Order in Council, then every such act or thing may be made or done in Saorstát Eireann by an Order of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State upon the advice of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State ;

AND WHEREAS the average cost of the maintenance of youthful offenders or children in certified schools throughout Sairstát Eireann has since the date of the Order aforesaid increased, and it is expedient that the sums therein declared to represent approximately the average cost of such maintenance be increased and that the said Order be amended accordingly ;

NOW I, TIMOTHY MICHAEL HEALY, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, acting on the advice of the Executive Council of Saorstát Eireann and in pursuance and by virtue of sub-section (1) of Section 75 of the Children Act, 1908, as applied to Ireland by section 133 of the same Act and Section 10 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) and of every and any other power me in that behalf enabling do hereby order and declare as follows :

1. The following sums, namely, the sum of eleven shillings by the week in the case of Reformatory Schools and the sum of ten shillings by the week in the case of Industrial Schools represent approximately the average cost of the maintenance of youthful offenders and children in such schools respectively throughout Saorstát Eireann in lieu of the sum of six shillings by the week in the case of Reformatory Schools and the sum of five shillings by the week in the case of Industrial Schools mentioned in the said Order dated the 23rd day of April, 1909.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1923.

3. This Order may for all purposes be cited as the Reformatory and Industrial Schools (Amendment) Order, 1924 (No. O.S. 2 of 1924).

DUBLIN.

This 26th day of November, 1924.

(Signed) T. M. HEALY,

Governor General.