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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
An Act to extend to Army Schools the benefit of certain Educational Endowments.
[11th May 1891]
C1Act repealed (N.I.) by S.I. 1980/1958 (N.I. 16), Sch.
C2References to county or voluntary school substituted (1.4.1945) for references to public elementary school by Education Act 1944 (c. 31), s. 120(1)(a)
(1) Where any scheme in force for the regulation of any endowed charity or charities, established or approved before or after the passing of this Act, includes any provision for the benefit of children who are or have been scholars in a public elementary school, an army school shall be deemed a public elementary school within the meaning of those provisions.
(2)In this Act the expression “army school” means a school established for the purpose of affording education to children of non-commissioned officers and men of Her Majesty’s regular land forces, and conducted under the authority of a Secretary of State . . . F1, and a certificate of the Director General of Military Education or of the Inspector of Naval Schools, as the case may require, shall be sufficient evidence that a school is an army school within the meaning of this Act.
This Act may be cited as the Army Schools Act 1891.
Army Schools Act 1891