Section 1 Minimum age of employment.
England, Wales and Scotland
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Accordingly in each of those sections for subsection (1)(a) there shall be substituted the paragraph—
“(a)so long as he is under the age of thirteen years”;
and in subsection (2) (which allows the general rules in subsection (1) to be modified by local authority bye-laws) for paragraph (a)(i) there shall be substituted the sub-paragraph—
“(i)the employment of children under the age of thirteen years (notwithstanding anything in paragraph (a) of the last foregoing subsection) by their parents or guardians in light agricultural or horticultural work”.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
S. 1(1) omitted (4.8.1998) by virtue of S.I. 1998/276, reg. 17(1)
Modifications
- C1
The text of ss. 1(2), 2(2), Sch. is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.