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(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, the enactments relating to the prohibition or regulation of the employment of children shall not apply to the employment of a child in his last year of compulsory schooling where the employment is in pursuance of arrangements made or approved by the local education authority [F1or, in the case of a child at a grant-maintained school, by the governing body of the school] or, in Scotland, the education authority with a view to providing him with work experience as part of his education.
(2)Subsection (1) above shall not be taken to permit the employment of any person in any way contrary to—
(a)an enactment which in terms applies to persons of less than, or not over, a specified age expressed as a number of years; or
(b)section 1(2) of the M1Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act 1920 or (when it comes into force) section 51(1) of the M2Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (prohibition of employment of children in ships);
(3)No arrangements shall be made under subsection (1) above for a child to be employed in any way which would be contrary to an enactment prohibiting or regulating the employment of young persons if he were a young person (within the meaning of that enactment) and not a child; and where a child is employed in pursuance of arrangements so made, then so much of any enactment as regulates the employment of young persons (whether by excluding them from any description of work, or prescribing the conditions under which they may be permitted to do it, or otherwise howsoever) and would apply in relation to him if he were of an age to be treated as a young person for the purposes of that enactment shall apply in relation to him, in and in respect of the employment arranged for him, in all respects as if he were of an age to be so treated.
(4)In this Act—
“enactment” includes any byelaw, regulation or other provision having effect under an enactment;
other expressions which are also used in the Education Acts shall have the same meaning in this section as in those Acts; and
“the Education Acts” means in England and Wales the Education Acts 1944 to [F21993] and, in Scotland, the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1971;
and for the purposes of subsection (1) above [F3a child shall be taken to be in his last year of compulsory schooling from the beginning of the term at his school which precedes the beginning of the school year in which by virtue of section 9 of the Education Act 1962 he would be entitled to leave school.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words inserted by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(1), Sch. 12 para. 14
F2Words in s. 1(4) substituted (1.9.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1), Sch. 19 para. 54(a); S.I. 1994/2038, art. 3, Sch. 2
F3Words substituted by Employment Act 1990 (c. 38, SIF 43:5), s. 14
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 1(1) applied (1.4.1994) by S.I. 1994/653, reg. 42(1), Sch. Pt. I
C2S. 1(1) applied (9.5.1994) by S.I. 1994/1084, reg. 8(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I
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