{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-63.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/594",
  "legislation_title": "The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986",
  "path": "article/63",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Adaptation of enactments relating to the employment of children or young persons",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of any enactment relating to the prohibition or regulation of the employment of children or young persons, any person who is not for the purposes of this Order over compulsory school age shall be deemed to be a child within the meaning of that enactment.\n(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment, a child may, to the like extent and subject to the like conditions as a young person be employed in employment in pursuance of arrangements made or approved by the Authority for the purpose of giving that child work experience as part of his education but may be so employed only—\n(a) in the school year in which he ceases to be of compulsory school age; and\n(b) in the school year immediately preceding that year.\n(3) In paragraph (2)—\nDefinition rep. by 1993 NI 12\nDefinition rep. by 1998 NI 13\n“school year” means a year ending on 31st July;\n“work experience” means the participation of children in employment in industrial, commercial, public authority and statutory undertakings, the object of which is to give to the children a greater understanding of the conditions, disciplines and relationships in those undertakings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3), Sch. 3 para. 1(2)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1998 NI 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/594/article/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:39.616919+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."
}