pileptic child to provide efficient and suitable
education for such child."

"(3.) If the parent of such child fails to provide such education for
such child, or is deemed by the Minister to be unable to provide such
education, the Minister may direct that such child be sent to such
special school or other institution for the education of feeble-minded
or epileptic children as he thinks fit."

Section 129: "Every parent, teacher of a school (either public or
private), constable, or officer of a charitable or kindred institution
who is aware of the place of residence (either temporary or permanent)
of a blind, deaf, feeble-minded, or epileptic child, and the householder
in whose house any such child resides, shall send notification of the
fact to the Minister, giving name, age, and address of the child; and if
any such person neglects or fails to comply with this provision, such
person shall on conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding one
pound, or in the case of a second or subsequent offence, whether
relating to the same or another child, not exceeding five pounds."

Section 56: "Every public school shall be organized and conducted in
accordance with regulations (a copy of which shall be conspicuously put
up in the school): Provided that the Minister may, on the application of
the Board, sanction the establishment of special classes for backward
children--that is, children who, through physical infirmity, absence
from school, or otherwise, are below the average standard of education
reached by other children of the same age."

The Mental Defectives Act, 1911, divides mentally defective persons into
six classes, as under:--

"'Mentally defective person' means a person who, owing to his mental
condition requires oversight, care, or control for his own good or in
the public interest, and who, according to the nature of his mental
defect, and to the degree of care, oversight, or control deemed to be
necessary, is included in one of the following classes:--

"_Class I:_ Persons of unsound mind--that is, persons who,
owing to disorder of the mind, are incapable of managing
themselves or their affairs.

"_Class II:_ Persons mentally infirm--that is, persons who,
through mental infirmity arising from age or decay of their
faculties, are incapable of managing themselves or their
affairs.

"_Class III:_ Idiots--that is, persons so deficient in mind
from birth or from an e