{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1968/1728",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Performances) Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Troupe work",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this Regulation, a licensing authority shall not grant a licence in respect of a child who has attained the age of thirteen years if the child—\n(a) by reason of taking part in any performance for which the licence is requested will have to live elsewhere than at the place where he would otherwise live, and\n(b) has during the three months preceding the performance for which the licence is requested or, if the licence is requested for more than one performance, the first performance, lived elsewhere than at the place where he would otherwise have lived by reason of taking part in a performance.\n(2) Paragraph (1) of this Regulation shall not apply where—\n(a) the licence is for acting and the part the child is to act cannot be taken except by a child of about his age, or\n(b) the licence is for dancing in a ballet which does not form part of an entertainment of which anything other than ballet or opera also forms part and the part the child is to dance cannot be taken except by a child of about his age, or\n(c) the nature of the child's part in the performance is wholly or mainly musical and either the nature of the performance is also wholly or mainly musical or the performance consists only of opera and ballet.\n(3) On the extension of the compulsory school age (or, in Scotland, school age) to sixteen years, that is to say—\n(a) in England and Wales, on the coming into force of an Order in Council under section 35 of the Education Act 1944, and\n(b) in Scotland, on the coming into force of regulations under section 32 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1962,\nparagraph (1) of this Regulation shall have effect as if for the word “thirteen” there were substituted the word “fourteen”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1678",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Performances) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/1728/regulation/7",
    "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."
}