Page:The Agricultural Children Act, 1873, and the Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867.djvu/16

12 parish; and the court may further advertise any such notice in such manner (if any) as it may think fit. 9. Where a court of summary jurisdiction are satisfied that a child has been prevented by illness or some reasonable cause from completing during any twelve months the number of school attendances requisite for obtaining a certificate in accordance with the provisions of this Act, such court may by order made in a summary manner exempt the child for the purposes of this Act from such number of school attendances as may be specified in the order, and a copy of such order shall be delivered gratis to the person applying for the same; and such order shall have the same effect for the purposes of this Act as if it were a certificate that the child had completed the number of school attendances mentioned in such order.

10. Nothing in this Act shall render any employer or his agent liable to any penalty for employing any child above the age of eight years for whom no certificate has been obtained in accordance with the provisions of this Act in the operations of hay harvest,