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Mental Deficiency (Notification of Children) Regulations,
1914.
(1) The School Medical Officer of the Local Education
Authority and such other duly qualified medical
practitioners approved by the Board of Education
under the Elementary Education (Defective and
Epileptic Children) Act, 1899, as the Local Education
Authority may nominate for that purpose,
hereinafter called Certifying Officers, shall be the
Medical Officers for the purpose of these Regulations.
Regulations applicable to Special Schools for Blind,
Deaf, Defective and Epileptic Children. General Regulations.
2—(a) No child may be admitted to a Special School who
has not been ascertained to be blind or deaf within
the meaning of the Elementary Education (Blind
and Deaf Children) Act, 1893, or to be defective or
epileptic within the meaning of the Elementary
Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act,
1899, nor may any child be retained in a Special
School (1) who becomes mentally and physically
fit to attend an ordinary Public Elementary School,
or (2) who is ascertained to be incapable of profiting
by instruction in a Special School.
(b) No child may be admitted to a Special School who
has not completed five years of age, and no child
may be retained in a Special School after completing
sixteen years of age, except with the special
consent of the Board.
(c) In the case of each child, proper records must be made
at the time of admission and periodically afterwards—