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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-employment-of-young-persons-regulations-1995/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Employment of Young Persons) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-employment-of-young-persons-regulations-1995",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations:—\n(a) prescribe the only circumstances in which children (i.e. persons under school-leaving age) may be employed in a ship;\n(b) prescribe the conditions under which young persons (i.e. persons, including children, up to 18) may be employed in a ship;\n(c) prohibit the employment of young persons as trimmers or stokers.\nThe Regulations re-enact, with modifications, certain provisions in section 1 of, and Part IV of the Schedule to, the Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act 1920 and the Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act 1925. (Those provisions are being repealed by provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 which come into force simultaneously with the Regulations.) The Regulations implement ILO Conventions 7 and 58.\nILO Conventions may be obtained from the International Labour Organization, Vincent House, Vincent Square, London SW1P 2NB.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/972/note",
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  "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."
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