If it appears to a local education authority that any child who is a registered pupil at a county school, voluntary school, or special school, is being employed in such manner as to be prejudicial to his health or otherwise to render him unfit to obtain the full benefit of the education provided for him, the authority may, by notice in writing served upon the employer, prohibit him from employing the child, or impose such restrictions upon his employment of the child as appear to them to be expedient in the interests of the child.

A local education authority may, by notice in writing served upon the parent or employer of any child who is a registered pupil at a county school, voluntary school, or special school, require the parent or employer to provide the authority, within such period as may be specified in the notice, with such information as appears to the authority to be necessary for the purpose of enabling them to ascertain whether the child is being employed in such a manner as to render him unfit to obtain the full benefit of the education provided for him.

Any person who employs a child in contravention of any prohibition or restriction imposed under subsection (1) of this section, or who fails to comply with the requirements of a notice served under subsection (2) of this section, shall be guilty of an offence against this section and liable on summary conviction, in the case of a first offence to a fine not exceeding F2level 1 on the standard scale, in the case of a second offence to a fine not exceeding F2level 1 on the standard scale, and in the case of a third or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding F2level 1 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Subsection (1) and subsection (3) of section twenty-eight of the M1Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (which relate to powers of entry for the enforcement of the provisions of Part II of that Act with respect to the employment of children) shall apply with respect to the provisions of any notice served under this section as they apply with respect to the provisions of the said Part II.

In execution of the duties imposed on him by this Act, the F4Secretary of State for Education and Science shall, in particular, make such arrangement as he considers expedient for securing that there shall be available sufficient facilities for the training of teachers for F5service in schools maintained by local education authorities, grant-maintained schools and institutions which are maintained by such authorities and provide higher education or further education (or both).

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Where plans for any building required for the purposes of any school or other educational establishment are approved by the F8Secretary of State for Education and Science, he may by order direct that any provision of any local Act or of any byelaw made under such an Act shall not apply in relation to the building or shall apply in relation thereto with such modifications as may be specified in the order.

Save as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, any dispute between a local education authority and the . . . F12 governors of any school with respect to the exercise of any power conferred or the performance of any duty imposed by or under this Act, may, notwithstanding any enactment rendering the exercise of the power or the performance of the duty contingent upon the opinion of the authority or of the . . . F12 governors, be referred to the F13Secretary of State for Education and Science; and any such dispute so referred shall be determined by him.

Any dispute between two or more local education authorities as to which of them is responsible for the provision of education for any pupil . . . F14 shall be determined by the F13Secretary of State for Education and Science.

Where any trust deed relating to a voluntary F15or grant-maintained school makes provision whereby a bishop or any other ecclesiastical or denominational authority has power to decide whether the religious F16education given in the school which purports to be in accordance with the provisions of the trust deed does or does not accord with those provisions, that question shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the trust deed.

If in the case of a county F18voluntary or grant-maintained school a question arises whether a change in the character of the school or enlargement of the school premises would be a significant change or enlargement, that question shall be determined by the Secretary of State.

If in the case of any institution a question arises as to whether any current or proposed provision of part-time senior education or post-school age education by that institution amounts or would amount to the provision of such education to a significant extent, that question shall be determined by the Secretary of State.

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Where any question is referred to the F25Secretary of State for Education and Science under this Part of this Act, then, if in the opinion of the F25Secretary of State for Educationnand and Science the examination of any pupil by a duly qualified medical practitioner appointed for the purpose by him would assist the determination of the question referred to him, the F25Secretary of State for Education and Science may by notice in writing served on the parent of that pupil . . . F26 require the parent to submit him . . . F26 for examination by such a practitioner; and if any person on whom such a notice is served fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements thereof, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F27level 1 on the standard scale.