{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968/regulation-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968/regulation-37.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1968/1728",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Performances) Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Children aged thirteen or more",
  "text": "(1) A child who has attained the age of thirteen years shall not be present at a place of performance—\n(a) for more than eight hours a day;\n(b) before nine in the morning or after seven in the evening, except that a child may be present after half-past eight in the morning if on the preceding day he was not present after half-past six in the evening.\n(2) Such a child shall not take part in a performance on any day—\n(a) for a continuous period of more than one hour without an interval for rest;\n(b) for a total period of more than three and a half hours.\n(3) Such a child shall not be present at a place of performance for more than four consecutive hours without there being two or more intervals of which one shall be for the purpose of a meal and shall be of not less than one hour and the other or others shall be for the purpose of rest and shall not be less than fifteen minutes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2384",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Performances) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2384",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Performances) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2007/736",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Performances) (Amendment)(Wales) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/1728/regulation/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:18:28.087479+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."
}