{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-and-activities-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-and-activities-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/372",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Performances and Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-and-activities-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Night-work",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding regulations 19 to 21, and subject to the restrictions and conditions in paragraphs (2) and (3), a licensing authority may permit a child to take part in a performance after the latest permitted hour if it is satisfied that a performance must take place after that hour.\n(2) The licensing authority must only permit the child to take part in a performance after midnight and before the earliest permitted hour if it is satisfied that is impracticable for the performance to be completed before midnight.\n(3) Where the licensing authority permits a child to take part in a performance after the latest permitted hour, the following restrictions and conditions apply—\n(a) the number of hours during which the child takes part in a performance after the latest permitted hour must be included when calculating the maximum number of hours during which the child may take part in a performance or rehearsal on any one day under regulations 19 to 21;\n(b) the child must not take part in any other performance or rehearsal until at least 16 hours have elapsed since the end of the child’s part in the performance; and\n(c) where the child takes part in a performance after the latest permitted hour on 2 successive days, the licensing authority must not permit the child to take part in any further performance after the latest permitted hour during the 7 days immediately following those 2 days.\n(4) In this regulation “latest permitted hour” and “earliest permitted hour” in relation to a child mean the latest hour and the earliest hour respectively at which that child may be present at the place of performance or rehearsal under regulations 19 to 21.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/372/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:32:02.562357+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}