{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-act-1954/section-166",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/70",
  "legislation_title": "Mines and Quarries Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-act-1954",
  "path": "section/166",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "166",
  "heading": "Liability of parents for unlawful employment of children.",
  "text": "For the purposes of any proceedings under this Act in respect of the employment of children in contravention of . . . , section one hundred and thirty six of the Education (Scotland) Act 1962, or section one of the Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act 1920 (being enactments which prohibit the employment of children in factories and, mines . . . and, so far as they relate to mines . . ., are incorporated with this Act), the references in section one hundred and sixty of this Act to a young person shall be construed as including references to a child within the meaning of . . . the said section seventeen or the said section one, as the case may be.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Education Act 1973 (c. 16), Sch. 2 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 166 inserted (1.1.2000) by S.I. 1999/2024, regs. 1(1), 47(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 166 omitted (1.1.2000) by S.I. 1999/2024, regs. 1(1), 47(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1962 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1920 c. 65."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/70/section/166",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:40.206842+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."
}