{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-protection-at-work-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-protection-at-work-regulations-1998/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/276",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Protection at Work) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-protection-at-work-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 1933 Act",
  "text": "In section 21 (penalties and legal proceedings in respect of general provsions as to employment) after subsection (2) insert the following new subsection—\n“(2A) Where a person is charged under this section with contravening section 18(1)(j) of this Act the proviso in subsection (1) of this section shall not apply, but it shall be a defence for him to prove that he used all due diligence to secure that section 18(1)(j) should be compiled with”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 21 was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1982, sections 38 and 46 and by the Employment Act 1989, section 10(2) and Schedule 3, Part III, paragraph 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/276/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:37:46.119626+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."
}