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Elementary Education Act 1897

This brief Act amended Section 97 of the 1870 Elementary Education Act to allow for a small increase in expenditure per child.

The text of the Elementary Education Act 1897 was prepared by Derek Gillard and uploaded on 22 June 2019.


Elementary Education Act 1897

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VICTORIA

Elementary Education Act 1897

1897 CHAPTER 16

An Act to amend Section Ninety-seven of the Elementary Education Act 1870. [3rd June 1897.]

WHEREAS by section ninety-seven of the Elementary Education Act 1870, it is enacted as follows:

"Where the school board satisfy the Education Department that in any year ending the twenty-ninth of September the sum required for the purpose of the annual expenses of the school board of any school district, and actually paid to the treasurer of such board by the rating authority, amounted to a sum which would have been raised by a rate of threepence in the pound on the rateable value of such district, and any such rate would have produced less than twenty pounds, or less than seven shillings and sixpence per child of the number of children in average attendance at the public elementary schools provided by such school board, such school board shall be entitled, in addition to the annual parliamentary grant in aid of the public elementary schools provided by them, to such further sum out of moneys provided by Parliament as, when added to the sum actually so paid by the rating authority, would, as the case may be, make up the sum of twenty pounds, or the sum of seven shillings and sixpence for each such child, but no attendance shall be reckoned for the purpose of calculating such average attendance unless it is an attendance as defined in the said minutes":
And whereas it is expedient to amend the said section:

BE it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Power to increase grant under 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75 s. 97

(1) Section ninety-seven of the Elementary Education Act 1870, shall have effect as if the sum of seven shillings and sixpence therein mentioned were increased by the sum of fourpence for every complete penny by which the school board rate for the year


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therein mentioned exceeded threepence. Provided that the said sum of seven shillings and sixpence shall not be thereby increased beyond a maximum or sixteen shillings and sixpence.

(2) "School board rate" means the rate in the pound on the rateable value of the district which would have produced the sum required in the said year for the purpose of the annual expenses of the board, and actually paid in that year to the treasurer by the rating authority.

(3) In calculating for the purpose of the said section ninety-seven and of this Act the annual expenses of a school board, the Education Department shall include such sum as is necessary for maintaining such working balance as the Education Department determine to be reasonable.

2 Commencement, construction, and short title

This Act shall from and after the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, be construed as part of section ninety-seven of the Elementary Education Act 1870, and shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland, and may be cited as the Elementary Education Act 1897.