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Section 19.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

PUBLIC EDUCATION ACT, 1899.

(As reprinted with Amendments to 31st December, 1926.)

COMPULSORY FORM.

Names of all scholars between the ages of six and fourteen who have not made four-fths of the possible half-day attendances during the month of.......

This Form to be made up and forwarded to the Education Department, Perth. within the first seven days of every month.

(As reprinted with amendments to 31st December, 1926.)

Quarterly Summary of Attendance to be forwarded to the Education Department within seven days after the close of school quarter. (Quarter closes on the last Friday in March, June, September, and December.)

INSTRUCTIONS.

.Females..

1. To find Average Attendance for the Quarter, divide the total number of Attendances by the total number of Half-days the School has been opened. Any remainder above one-half counts as a unit.

2. To find Average Enrolment for the Quarter, add together the number of Boys and Girls on Roll for weeks School was open and divide by number of weeks open. Remainder same as for Average Attendance.

3. No blanks must be left. The full Quarter to be shown on this Return. If the School has been closed for a week or weeks during the quarter, for holidays or other causes, the date of closing should appear in regular order. 4. Teachers not actually on the staff, such as visiting teachers of music or painting, are to be disregarded in the compilation of this Summary of attendance, etc., certified correct.

return.

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Proprietor [or Headmaster,

or Principal Teacher.]

By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.

STATE CHILDREN.

No. 31 of 1907.

As amended by No. 21 of 1919, by No. 14 of 1921, and by
No. 31 of 1926.‡

AN ACT to make better provision for the Protection, Control,
Maintenance, and Reformation of Neglected and Des-
titute Children and for other purposes.

B

[1ssented to 20th December, 1907.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of same, as follows:-

the

PART I-PRELIMINARY.

1. This Act may be cited as the State Children Act, 1907- Short title.

1926.

2. This Act is divided into the following Parts:

PART

I. PRELIMINARY, SS. 1-4.

PART II. THE STATE CHILDREN DEPARTMENT, SS.

5-12.

PART III-INSTITUTIONS, ss. 13-18.

PART IV. STATE CHILDREN AND CHILDREN'S
COURTS, SS. 19-67.

PART

V. MAINTENANCE OF CHILDREN BY THEIR
RELATIVES, SS. 68-89B.

PART VI. COMMITTAL TO THE CARE OF PRIVATE
PERSONS OR SOCIETIES, SS. 90-103.

Assented to 15th November, 1921.

*Assented to 15th November, 1919. #Assented to 8th December, 1926. It is enacted by Section one of the Act No. 31 of 1926 as follows:-

This Act may be cited as the State Children Act Amendment Act, 1926, and shall have effect and be deemed to have had effect, as regards sections six, nine, and thirteen, as from the commencement of the State Children Act Amendment Act, 1921; and so far as regards sections five and seven, as from the commencement of the State Children Act Amendment Act, 1919; and so far as regards sections three, eight, and fourteen, from the commencement of the State Children Act, 1907; and so far as regards the other sections, shall have effect as from the commencement of this Act.

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No. 81 of 1926, s. 2.

Division.

No. 21 of 1919, &, 21

No. 21 of 1919, s. 22.

Repeal.

Interpretation.

PART VII.-LICENSING OF CHILDREN AND RESTRIC-
TIONS ON EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN,
ss. 104-107.

PART VIII.-LYING-IN HOMES AND FOSTER MOTHERS,
AND THE CARE AND ADOPTION OF

CHILDREN, SS. 108-118.

PART IX. PROCEDURE, PENALTIES, AND GENERAL
PROVISIONS, ss. 119-151.

3. The Acts specified in the First Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent therein stated: Provided that(1) Any appointment or order made, any license

granted, and any indenture of apprenticeship or
contract entered into under any enactment hereby
repealed, shall continue in force as if the same
had been made, granted, or entered into under
this Act:

(2) Any enactment or document referring to any enact-
ment hereby repealed shall be construed to refer
to the corresponding provisions of this Act:
(3) Except as aforesaid, this repeal shall not affect any
right, interest, or liability already created, in-
curred, or existing, nor anything lawfully done or
suffered under any enactment hereby repealed;
and any proceeding in respect of any such right.
interest, or liability may be carried on as if this
Act had not been passed.

4. In this Act, unless the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires,

"Board out" means to place a State child in the care

or charge of some person for the purpose of being nursed or maintained by such person, or in such person's house:

"Child" means any boy or girl under the age of eighteen

years; and, in the absence of positive evidence as to age, means any boy or girl under the apparent age of eighteen years;

"Court" means a Children's Court established under this Act;

"Department" means the State Children Department constituted under this Act;