C5Part II Employment of Children and Young Persons

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C5

Pt. II (ss. 34-44): functions of local authority not to be responsibility of an executive of the authority (E.) (16.11.2000) by virtue of S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1

General provisions as to employment

34 Hours of employment. C1

For paragraph (c) of section 18(1) of the principal Act (which prohibits the employment of children before six o’clock in the morning or after eight o’clock in the evening) and for paragraph (c) of section 28(1) of the principal Scottish Act (which prohibits such employment before six o’clock in the morning or after seven o’clock in the evening or at certain times of the year eight o’clock in the evening) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

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before seven o’clock in the morning or after seven o’clock in the evening on any day ; or

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C1

The text of ss. 16(1), 17(1)(2), 25(1), 31, 32, 34, 35(3), 36, 38(2), 43, 57(1), 64(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

35 Street trading.

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C22

Nothing in the said section 20 or section 30 of the principal Scottish Act or in any byelaw made under either of those sections shall restrict the engagement or employment of any person in the carrying on in any place of a retail trade or business (within the meaning of the M1Shops Act 1950) on any occasion on which it is customary for retail trades or businesses to be carried on in that place.

F2C33

At the end of the said section 20 there shall be added the following subsection:—

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No person under the age of eighteen shall on a Sunday engage or be employed in street trading of a descrip tion to which, notwithstanding section 58 of the Shops Act 1950 (which extends certain provisions to any place where a retail trade or business is carried on), those provisions do not extend.

36 Increase of certain penalties. C4

Section 21 of the principal Act and section 31 of the principal Scottish Act (which impose penalties for contraventions of the general provisions of those Acts as to employment) shall each be amended, as respects offences committed after the commencement of this Act, as follows:—

a

in subsection (1) (which provides for fines not exceeding five pounds and twenty pounds for first and subsequent offences respectively) for the words “five pounds” there shall be substituted the words “twenty pounds” and for the words “twenty pounds” the words “fifty pounds”; and

b

in subsection (3) (which provides for fines of twenty shillings and forty shillings for first and subsequent offences respectively) for the words “twenty shillings” there shall be substituted the words “ten pounds” and for the words “forty shillings” the words “twenty pounds”.