S.I. No. 77/1927 - School Attendance (Registers and Records) Orders, 1927.]

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the School Attendance (Registers and Records) Order, 1927.

2. In this Order the expression " the Act," means the

School Attendance Act, 1926

(No. 17 of 1926).

3. The

Interpretation Act, 1923

(No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

4. (1) The registers and records for the purposes of the Act to be kept by every enforcing authority shall include a register of warnings and legal proceedings.

(2) In addition to the register of warnings and legal proceedings it shall be the duty of every School Attendance Committee to keep a minute book in which there shall be entered the minutes of the proceedings at every meeting of such Committee.

5. Every register of warnings and legal proceedings shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto, and whenever a warning is served under Section 17 of the Act in respect of a child resident in the school attendance area to which the register relates, there shall be entered in respect of such child, in columns 2 to 11 inclusive of the register the particulars specified at the head of those columns respectively, and whenever legal proceedings are taken under the said Section 17 in respect of any such child, there shall be entered in respect of such legal proceedings in columns 12, 13 and 14 of the register the particulars specified at the head of those columns respectively.

Given under my Seal of Office, this 3rd day of August, 1927.

J. M. O'SULLIVAN,

Minister for Education.

INSTRUCTIONS.

Only the names of children in respect of whom warnings are issued or of whom legal proceedings are subsequently taken should be entered.

Col. 2, 3, 5

The full name of the parent (or guardian) and of the child (surname first) and full address of the parent should be entered.

Col. 6

The Register number of the child, as entered in the Census Register, should be noted for convenient reference.

Col. 14

In the case of a second or subsequent prosecution a new entry should be made and appropriate cross references should be entered in the " Observations " column.

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ACT, 1926

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SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREA.............................

REGISTER OF WARNINGS AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

Entry No.

Name of Parent

Address

Occupation

Name of Child

Reg. No. of Child

Age Yrs. Mths.

School in which Child is enrolled

Period of absence without reasonable excuse

Date of Warning

Excuse (if any) given by parent in response to warning

Date of issue of summons

Date of hearing in Court

Decision of Court

Observations

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

(14)

(15)

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1927. No. 77.

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE (REGISTERS AND RECORDS) ORDERS, 1927.]

WHEREAS, by

Section 23

of the

School Attendance Act, 1926

(No. 17 of 1926), it is enacted that the Minister for Education may, by Order, prescribe any matter or thing which is in that Act referred to as prescribed or to be prescribed

AND WHEREAS, by Sub-section (2) of Section 8 of the said Act it is enacted that it shall be the duty of every enforcing authority to keep the prescribed registers and records for the purposes of the said Act

NOW I, JOHN MARCUS O'SULLIVAN, Minister for Education, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the herein-before recited provisions of the

School Attendance Act, 1926

(No. 17 of 1926), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling do hereby Order as follows :—