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Education
(Bpecial
Religious
Instruction).
84. This was a Bill providing for the payment to the Local
Education Authority by the Managers of non-provided
schools in which religious instruction is given
which would not be permissible in a school provided
by the authority under Section 14 of the Elementary Education
Act, 1870, of a sum equal to one-fifteenth part of the sum
paid in salaries to the teachers who have been employed in the
school and have given that instruction. The Council petitioned
against the Bill on the grounds that the Local Education
Authority does not pay rent for the school buildings, and, assuming
that one-fifteenth to fourteen-fifteenths is the true proportion
of denominational to secular education in non-provided schools,
then the Local Education Authority should in justice pay to the
Managers fourteen-fifteenths of the rental value of the buildings
as rent; and that the Bill should not be passed unless a provision
to that effect was inserted. The Bill was withdrawn.
Elections
(Meetings in
Schoolrooms).
85. The object of this Bill was to entitle any Member of
Parliament, or of County, District, or Parish
Councils, or Boards of Guardians, and any candidate
for election to such bodies, for the purpose of holding a
public meeting in furtherance of their candidature, to the use of
a suitable room in any public elementary school upon payment of
a fixed charge. The Council petitioned for an alteration of the
Bill so as to include Metropolitan Borough Councils in its provisions,
but the Bill, after passing the House of Lords, did not
reach second reading in the Commons.
Factory & Workshop
Act (1901)
Amendment.
86. The object of this Bill was to distribute the working
hours in laundries more regularly over the week,
to substitute for the present variable periods of
employment a fixed hour in the morning and
another at night before and after which respectively work was
not to be carried on, and to bring within the scope of the Factory
Act, religious and charitable institution laundries, and the smaller
laundries where long hours and insanitary conditions are frequently
found. A petition was presented by the Council in favour
of the Bill, which was afterwards dropped.
Home Work
Regulation.
87. This was a Bill to provide for the better regulation of
home industries and required that all dwellingplaces
in which work is done shall be certified by
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