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15.—No charge shall be made by the Local Education Authority
for any licence or badge, but a deposit of one shilling (to be refunded
on the return of the badge) shall be paid on the issue of the badge,
provided that the Local Education Authority may forego the payment
of such deposit when the circumstances of the applicant render it
desirable.
16.—No licensed person shall, while trading, bo assisted by any
unlicensed person under the age of 16 years.
17.—'No licensed person shall in any street or public place tout
or importune to the annoyance or obstruction of any passenger.
18.—The Local Education Authority may suspend or revoke any
licence on any one of the following grounds, namely, if the holder :—
(a) Is convicted of any offence.
(b) Commits a breach of any of these byelaws.
(c) Uses the licence as a cloak for begging, immorality, imposition,
or other improper purpose.
(d) Alters, defaces, lends, sells, pawns, transfers, or otherwise disposes
of his badge.
(e) Fails to notify the Local Education Authority within one week
of any change of his residence.
(f) Fails to attend regularly at a continuation class, as and when
required by law.
Repeal of Byelaws.
19.—From and after the date of the confirmation of these byelaws
the byelaws which were made by the Council under Sections 1 and 2
of the Employment of Children Act, 1903, on the 28th day of March,
1911, and the 23rd day of September, 1913, respectively, and were confirmed
by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State on the
21st day of June, 1911, and 1st day of December, 1913, respectively,
shall be repealed.
Note as to Penalties.
Any person by whom a child or other person under the age of 16
is employed in contravention of these byelaws is liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding Forty Shillings, or, in the case of a
second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding Five Pounds; and
if any parent or guardian of a child or other person under the age of
16 has conduced to the commission of the alleged offence by wilful default
or by habitually neglecting to exercise due care, such parent or guardian
is liable on summary conviction to a like fine.
If any person under the age of 16 contravenes the provisions of
these byelaws as to street trading, such person is liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings, and, in the case
of a second or subsequent offence, if a child, to be sent to an Industrial
School, and if not a child, to a fine not exceeding Five Pounds.
The above byelaws were adopted by the Council of the Urban District
of Ilford at a meeting held on the 26th day of October, 1920.
The Juvenile Employment Committee has during the past year
found occupation for 249 children (134 boys and 115 girls) out of
686 children (338 boys and 348 girls) registered. Arrangements
are being made for the Committee to be supplied by the School