twelve months or any part of the twelve months[1], immediately preceding the month in which the application is made, to furnish a certificate in the said form specifying the number of school attendances of such child; and any such teacher who, without reasonable cause, makes default in complying with such application shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
Power to suspend temporarily restrictive Provisions of Act.
8. A court of summary jurisdiction[2] in any petty sessional division may, if it thinks fit, upon the written application of any person or persons occupying in the aggregate not less than three hundred acres of land in such petty sessional division, issue a notice declaring the restrictions imposed by this Act on the employment of children to be suspended therein for the period to be named in such notice; and during such period such restrictions shall not (save as to any proceedings commenced before the date of the notice) be of any force within such petty sessional division: Provided that the period or periods so named by any such court shall not exceed in the whole eight weeks between the first day of January and the thirty first day of December in any year.
The court shall cause a copy of every notice so issued to be sent to the overseers of every parish within such petty sessional division, and the overseers shall affix the same to the door of the principal Church[3]in the
- ↑ * In the case of a child having attended more than one school in succession during any period of twelve months which is to be used for the purposes of a qualification, the principal teacher of each school may be applied to, and must then give such a certificate as is appropriate to the facts.
- ↑ † See § 4, ante.
- ↑ ‡ There are occasionally parishes to be met with which have ceased to possess a Church of their own. This Act
