{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1968/1728",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Performances) Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-regulations-1968",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Medical examinations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this Regulation, a licensing authority shall not grant a licence—\n(a) for performances for film or television, or\n(b) for broadcast performances, other than performances for television, with respect to which the applicant for the purposes of Regulation 3(2) of these Regulations requests in the application form that the child may perform on more than six days in a period not exceeding six months, or\n(c) for other performances if the child would perform on the maximum number of days in a week permitted under Part IV or V of these Regulations, as the case may be, and for a period exceeding one week,\nunless the school medical officer, or other medically qualified person approved by them, has examined the child and has certified that he is fit to take part in the performances for which the licence is requested and that his health will not suffer by reason of taking part in such performances.\n(2) Where a child has been medically examined under paragraph (1) of this Regulation, he need not be medically examined in order that a further licence may be granted in respect of a performance taking place within a period of six months from the date of the said medical examination unless it appears desirable to the licensing authority that he should be medically examined.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/1728/regulation/8",
    "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."
}