The Elementary Education Acts,1870-1880: With Notes, Cases, Index, and Appendix Containing the Incorporated Statutes, and Official Documents Relating to the Acts

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Page 39 - The school board shall be a body corporate, by the name of the school board of the district to which they belong, having a perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this Act...
Page 80 - ... attend the school on any day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which his parent belongs.
Page 132 - Court or other place appointed for the administration of justice, and for the time being empowered by law to do alone any act authorised to be done by more than one justice...
Page 133 - Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification, whether it does or not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived...
Page 136 - ... remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid ; and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed, as if the repealing Act had not been passed.
Page 94 - No person shall directly or indirectly induce any voter to display his ballot paper after he shall have marked the same, so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for or against whom he has so marked his vote.
Page 511 - Act in that behalf mentioned, unless such child, being of the age of ten years or upwards, is employed, and is attending school in accordance with the provisions of the Factory Acts, or of any bye-law of the local authority (hereinafter mentioned) made under section seventy-four of "The Elementary Education Act, 1870," as amended by " The Elementary Education Act, 1873," and this Act, and sanctioned by the education department.
Page 433 - That there is not within two miles, measured according to the nearest road, from the residence of such child any public elementary school open which the child can attend; or (2.) That the absence of the child from school has been caused by sickness or any unavoidable cause.
Page 23 - ... the petition shall state the land intended to be taken and the purposes for which it is required, and the names of the owners, lessees, and occupiers of land who have assented, dissented, or are neuter in respect of the taking of such land, or who have returned no answer to the notice...
Page 93 - ... returning officer or an officer or clerk in attendance at a polling station, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour...

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