No. 356/1943:

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE (HOURS OF ATTENDANCE) ORDER, 1943.

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE (HOURS OF ATTENDANCE) ORDER, 1943.

WHEREAS by section 23 of the School Attendance Act, 1926 (No. 17 of 1926), it is enacted that the Minister for Education may by order prescribe any matter or thing which is in that Act referred to as prescribed or to be prescribed :

AND WHEREAS by sub-section (1) of section 4 of the said Act it is enacted that the parent of every child to whom that Act applies shall, unless there is a reasonable excuse for not so doing, cause the child to attend a national or other suitable school on every day on which such school is open for secular instruction and for such time on every such day as shall be prescribed or sanctioned by the Minister for Education in respect of such day :

AND WHEREAS by the School Attendance (Hours of Attendance) Order, 1926 ( S. R. & O. No. 79 of 1926 ), the Minister for Education prescribed the time for the purposes of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the said Act for the attendance of every child to whom the said Act applies at a national or other suitable school on every day on which such school is open for secular instruction :

AND WHEREAS by the School Attendance (Hours of Attendance) Order, 1930 ( S. R. & O. No. 68 of 1930 ), the said School Attendance (Hours of Attendance) Order, 1926, was amended in certain respects not material to this Order :

NOW, I, TOMÁS Ó DEIRG, Minister for Education, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the School Attendance Act, 1926 (No. 17 of 1926), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows :—

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the School Attendance (Hours of Attendance) Order, 1943.

(2) The School Attendance (Hours of Attendance) Orders, 1926 and 1930, and this Order may be cited together as the School Attendance (Hours of Attendance) Orders, 1926 to 1943.

2. In this Order the expression " the Act " means the School Attendance Act, 1926 (No. 17 of 1926).

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937) applies to this Order.

4. The School Attendance (Hours of Attendance) Order, 1926 ( S. R. & O. No. 79 of 1926 ), shall cease to have effect in so far as it relates to national schools and in lieu thereof, for the purposes of sub-section (1) of section 4 of the act, the time for attendance of every child to whom the Act applies at a national school on every day on which such school is open for secular instruction shall be such as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Education either generally or in respect of the particular school.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 28th day of October, 1943.

(Sighnithe) T. Ó DEIRG,

Minister for Education.