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Enforcement of Act.
33 & 34 Vict. c. 75.
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7. The provisions of this Act respecting the employment of children shall be enforced—
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(1.) In a school district within the jurisdiction of a school board, by that board; and
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(2.) In every other school district by a committee (in this Act referred to as a school attendance committee) appointed annually, if it is a borough, by the council of the borough, and if it is a parish, by the guardians of the union comprising such parish.
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A school attendance committee under this section may consist of not less than six nor more than twelve members of the council or guardians appointing the committee
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Every such school board and school attendance committee (in this Act referred to as the local authority) shall, as soon as may be, publish the provisions of this Act within their jurisdiction in such manner as they think best calculated for making those provisions known.
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Provided that it shall be the duty of the inspectors and subinspectors acting under the Acts regulating factories workshops and mines respectively, and not of the local authority, to enforce the observance by the employers of children in such factories workshops and mines of the provisions of this Act respecting the employment of children; but it shall be the duty of the local authority to assist the said inspectors and sub-inspectors in the performance of their duty by information and otherwise.
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It shall be the duty of such local authority to report to the Education Department any infraction of the provisions of section seven of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, in any public elementary school within their district which may come to their knowledge, and also to forward to the Education Department any complaint which they may receive of the infraction of those provisions.
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[S. 8 rep. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 16. s. 107.]
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