Children and Young Persons Act 1963

35 Street trading

(1) In section 20(1) of the principal Act (which, subject to certain exceptions, prohibits persons under the age of sixteen from engaging or being employed in street trading) for the word " sixteen ", in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted the word " seventeen ".

(2) 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 Shops Act 1950) on any occasion on which it is customary for retail trades or businesses to be carried on in that place.

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

“(3) No person under the age of eighteen shall on a Sunday engage or be employed in street trading of a description 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.”