{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-35.json",
  "legislation": "nidsr/2016/9780337999567",
  "legislation_title": "The Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Other exceptions relating to young workers",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 6 does not apply in relation to a young worker where—\n(a) the employer requires the young worker to undertake work which is necessary either to maintain continuity of service or production or to respond to a surge in demand for a service or product;\n(b) no adult worker is available to perform the work; and\n(c) performing the work would not adversely affect the young worker’s education or training.\n(2) Regulation 8 does not apply in relation to a young worker employed—\n(a) in a hospital or similar establishment, or\n(b) in connection with cultural, artistic, sporting or advertising activities,\nin the circumstances referred to in paragraph (1).\n(3) Regulation 8 does not apply, except in so far as it prohibits work between midnight and 4 a.m., in relation to a young worker employed in—\n(a) agriculture;\n(b) retail trading;\n(c) postal or newspaper deliveries;\n(d) a catering business;\n(e) a hotel, public house, restaurant, bar or similar establishment; or\n(f) a bakery,\nin the circumstances referred to in paragraph (1).\n(4) Where the application of regulation 8 is excluded by paragraph (2) or (3), and a young worker is accordingly required to work during a period which would otherwise be a rest period or rest break—\n(a) the young worker shall be supervised by an adult worker where such supervision is necessary for the young worker’s protection; and\n(b) the young worker shall be allowed an equivalent period of compensatory rest.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2016/9780337999567/regulation/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:47.545926+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."
}