{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968/regulation-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968/regulation-38.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1968/1728",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Performances) Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968",
  "path": "regulation/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Children aged five to twelve",
  "text": "(1) A child who has attained age of five years but has not attained the age of thirteen years shall not be present at a place of performance—\n(a) for more than seven and a half hours a day;\n(b) before nine in the morning or after half-past four in the afternoon, except that a child who has attained the age of ten years may be present until five in the afternoon.\n(2) Such a child shall not take part in a performance on any day—\n(a) for a continuous period of more than forty-five minutes without an interval for rest;\n(b) for a total period of more than three hours.\n(3) Such a child shall not be present at a place of performance for more than three and a half 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": "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/38",
    "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."
}