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Approved schools

Approved schools. These schools are schools intended for the education and training of persons to be sent there in pursuance of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (see s. 79(1) and approved by the Secretary of State. They are regulated by ss. 79-83 of that Act. Local authorities may under certain circumstances undertake the purchase, establishment, building, alteration, enlargement, rebuilding or management of an approved school (s. 80). The Secretary of State may classify approved schools as he thinks best calculated to secure that a person sent to an approved school is sent to the school appropriate to his case. With certain exceptions the managers of an approved school are bound to accept any person sent there in pursuance of the Act (s. 81). The expression 'approved school' was first used in the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932, which was declared to apply in relation to a school which at the commencement of this Act is a certified reformatory school or a certified indust...


Industrial Schools

Industrial Schools. References to these words are to be replaced by the words 'Approved Schools' by the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 108.S. 44 of the (English) Children Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 67), defined an 'industrial school' as 'a school for the industrial training of children in which children are lodged, clothed and fed as well as taught.' However, as to the present law, see APPROVED SCHOOLS...


Reformatory Schools

Reformatory Schools. Section 44 of the (English) Children Act, 1908, defined a 'reformatory school' as 'a school for the industrial training of youthful offenders, in which youthful offenders are lodged, clothed, and fed, as well as taught.' As to the present law, see APPROVED SCHOOLS....


Juvenile offenders

Juvenile offenders. The various methods of dealing with juvenile offenders are governed by ss. 50 to 60 of (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12). See s. 54 with regard to committal in custody in a remand home, and s. 57 with regard to sending to approved schools. With regard to the summary trial of children and young persons for certain indictable offences, see the Third Schedule of the Act and s. 11 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 49). Seealso CHILDREN; INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS; REFORMATORY SCHOOLS....


School

School. See EDUCATION; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; RE-FORMATORY SCHOOLS; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Education.'An institution of learning and education, esp. for children, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1346.School Attendance Committee, a committee appointed annually (in 'school districts' not within the jurisdiction of a 'school board') for the purpose of enforcing the Elementary Education Act, 1876, by proceeding against parents who neglected to send their children to a public elementary school. The duties of this Committee were transferred to the local education authorities by the Education Act, 1902. This Act was repealed by the Education Act, 1921, but the responsibilities of the local education authorities in this respect were confirmed (s. 43).School Board, a body corporate of persons elected triennially, for the purpose of managing 'public elementary schools' within their respective districts [(English) Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873]. School Boards were abolished by the (Eng...


Prostitute

Prostitute, 'prostitute' means a female who offers her body for promiscuous sexual intercourse for hire, whether in money or in kind. State of U.P. v Kaushailiya, AIR 1964 SC 416: (1964) 4 SCR 1002.A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Solicitation by prostitutes is punishable in towns by the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, s. 28 (in cases where the town is subject to a special Act incorporating that Act); in London by the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s. 54, and generally by the Vagrancy Act, 1824.A licensed retailer of intoxicating liquor permitting his premises to be the habitual resort of reputed prostitutes, whether their object be prostitution or not, is, if he allows them to remain longer than is necessary for the purpose of obtaining reasonable refreshment, liable to a penalty under the Licensing Act, 1910, s. 76.A man who lives on the earnings of prostitution may be dealt with as a 'rogue and a vagabond' by the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended...


Rescue

Rescue, the taking away and setting at liberty, against law, a distress taken, or a person arrested by the process or course of law (Co. Litt. 160 b). Rescue of persons the custody of the law has been dealt with in by a number of Statutes from 23 Edw. 1. Aiding a prisoner to escape is a felony by the Prison Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 126), s. 37. See Archbold's Criminal Pleading, Ev. And Practice, 25th Edn. pp. 1112-1123. Rescue of children from approved schools (late reformatory or industrial), see Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12); rescues from prisons abroad, see 22 Vict. c. 25; of persons of unsound mind, see Lunacy Act, 1890.The act or an instance of saving or freeing someone from danger or captivity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1308.Rescue lies where a person distrains for rent or services, or for damage feasant, and is desirous of impounding the distress, and another person rescues the distress from him. The party distraining must be in posse...


Endowed schools

Endowed schools. Schools wholly or partly maintained out of an endowment. The (English) Endowed Schools Acts are 23 Vict. c. 11; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 32; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 56; 36 & 37 Vict. c. 87; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 29; and 42 & 43 Vict. c. 66; since which statutes their temporary provisions have been continued by (English) Annual Expiring Laws Continuance Acts. The principal Act is that of 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 56), which provided for the reorganization of endowed schools generally (ex-cepting those subject to the (English) Public Schools Act, 1868, as to which see PUBLIC SCHOOLS) through the medium of 'schemes' to be framed by the 'Endowed Schools Commissioners,' whose powers were transferred by the (English) Act of 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 87), to the Charity Com-missioners, and are now vested in the Board of Education. As to the dismissal of masters, see the (English) Endowed Schools (Masters) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 39), and Wright v. Zetland (Marquess), (1908) 1 KB 63. As to inspection o...


Ragged Schools

Ragged Schools, were exempted from poor and other rates by the Sunday and Ragged Schools Rating (Exemption from Rating) Act, 1869, in which a 'ragged school' means:Any school used for the gratuitous education of children and young persons of the poorest classes, and for the holding of classes and meetings in furtherance of the same object, and without any pecuniary benefit being derived therefrom except to the teacher or teachers employed.The Act also gives the same advantage to Sunday-schools, i.e., schools giving religious instruction to the young without deriving pecuniary profit. Ragged schools have ceased to exist since the establishment of free State education. See EDUCA-TION....


Grammar Schools

Grammar Schools, endowed schools founded (many of them by King Edward the Sixth) for the purpose of teaching Latin and Greek, or either of them, and in which, except under the orders of a Court of Equity, under the (English) Grammar Schools Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 77), the teaching of one or both of these languages, in accordance with the terms of the foundation, cannot be dispensed with. Grammar Schools are now usually governed by schemes under the Endowed Schools Acts, and in such cases visitatorial power is exercised by the Board of Education, Tudor's Char. Trusts, 4th Edn. P. 78, note (d). See ENDOWED SCHOOLS....


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