Canal Boats

Canal boats. The registration and inspection of canal boats used as dwellings, and the education of children living therein, provided for by the (English) Canal Boats Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 60), partly repealed by the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, made more stringent by the (English) Canal Boats Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. C. 75), repealed and replaced by the (English) P. H. Act, 1936. See ss. 249 and 258 ibid. For the purposes of this Act; canal' includes any river, inland navigation or lake or any other waters wholly or in part within a county or borough. Canal boat means any vessel used for the conveyance of goods except registered Thames barges, registered seagoing ships and pleasure vessels.

The (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 10, deals with education of children.