Industrial Schools Act 1874 Amendment Act 1877 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO

VICTORLE BEGINiE

No. 7

An Act to amend The Industrial Schools.Act, 1874.'

[Assented to 6th August, 1877.

HEREAS it is expedient to amend ' The Industrial Schools Preamble

WGovernor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and withAct, 1874' ; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the

the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as ' The Industrial short cam

Schools Act, 1874, Amendment Act, 1877.'

2. No infant voluntarily surrendered, or surrendering himself or No tenni&

herself, or taken in accordance with the provisions of the fifth section 3„relq",'Neeriteis of the said Act, into any school, orphanage, or other institution certi- of a guardian, fled under the said Act, shall be or be deemed to be in the custody of , 1.1,11,117„VynitL the certified manager or director thereof, nor shall such certified orphanage, or

manager or director acquire or have all or any of the powers or privi- inisnatenlittlof

leges of a father over or in respect of such infant, nor shall he be or be for one year

deemed to be the lawful guardian of such infant, unless such infant

either be an actual inmate of such certified school, orphanage, or insti-

tution as aforesaid, or, being over twelve years of age, shall have been

educated as an inmate of such certified school, orphanage, or other

institution, for a period of at least one year.

3. No indenture or other instrument of apprenticeship, which may No Indenture of

purport to bind as apprentice any infant who may have been surren- Mrae,ttij

dared or taken into any certified school, orphanage, or other institution, infant a party to

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the same and

Resident Magis-	shall be of any force or validity, unless such infant signify his consent
trate approves	thereto by becoming a party thereto, and unless the Resident or Police Magistrate of the district in which the proposed master lives, signifies his approval of the same by endorsing his name thereon.

WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON,

GOVERNOR.