Elementary Education Act, 1891

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Power to modify limit of fees in certain cases.

4.—(1) Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the Education Department,[²] if they are satisfied that sufficient public school accommodation, without payment of fees, has been provided for a school district, and that the charge of school fees or the increase of school fees for children over three and under fifteen years of age in any particular school receiving the fee grant is required owing to a change of population in the district, or will be for the educational benefit of the district, or any part of the district, may from time to time approve such charge or increase of fees in that school, provided that the ordinary fee for such children shall not exceed sixpence a week.

(2) The Education Department[²] shall report annually to Parliament all cases in which they have sanctioned or refused the imposition or augmentation of fees under this section, with a statement of the amount of fee permitted.

(3) The Education Department[²] may, if they think fit, make it an express condition of such approval that the amount received for any school year from the fees so charged or increased, or a specified portion of that amount, shall be taken in reduction of the fee grant which would otherwise have been payable for that school year, and in that case the fee grant shall be reduced accordingly.

[Ss. 5[³] –7 rep. 2 Edw. 7. c. 42, ss. 25 (3), 27 (1), 3 Edw. 7. c. 24, s. 1.]

[² Now the Board of Education; see 62 & 63 Vict. c. 33. s. 2 (1).]