Interpretation.
The following words and expressions shall in this Act have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there is something in the context inconsistent with such meaning; that is to say,
"Child" shall mean a child under twelve[1] years of age:
"Certificated child" shall mean a child for whom a certificate has been obtained in accordance with the provisions of this Act:
"Parent" shall mean the parent, guardian, or person who is liable to maintain or has the actual custody or control over any child;
"School" shall mean a school which the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education have recognised as giving efficient elementary education; or if there is no school which has been so recognised within two miles, measured according to the nearest road, of the residence of any child, then with respect to such child any elementary school, and shall also include any school certified by the Local Government Board for pauper children under the Act of the session of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three[2], and any workhouse or district school for paupers under the Poor Law Acts:[3]
"School attendance" shall mean attendance at a morning or afternoon meeting of a school for the whole of the time during which instruction in secular subjects is given at such meeting:
