EmploymentS
123 Work experience in last year of compulsory schooling.S
(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 [F1to whom this subsection applies] where the employment is in pursuance of arrangements made or approved by the education authority [F2(where the child is in attendance at a school under the management of that authority) or by the board of management of a self-governing school (where the child is in attendance at that self-governing school)] 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 [F3section 55(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995] (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.
[F4(4)subsection (1) above applies to a child undergoing compulsory education during the period between 1st May in the calendar year before the calendar year in which he attains the upper limit of school age and the end of the latter year.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39, SIF 41:2), s. 82(1), Sch. 10 para. 8(21)(a)(i)
F2Words inserted by Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c.39, SIF 41:2), s. 82(1), Sch. 10 para. 8(21)(a)(ii)
F3Words in s. 123(2)(b) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(2), 315(3), 316(2), Sch. 13 para. 56 (with s. 312(1)).
F4S. 123(4) substituted by Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39, SIF 41:2), s. 82(1), Sch. 10 para. 8(21)(b)
Marginal Citations
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Textual Amendments
F5S. 124 repealed by Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39, SIF 41:2), s. 82(2), Sch. 11
125 Adaptation of enactments relating to employment of children and young persons.S
For the purpose of any enactment relating to the prohibition or regulation of the employment of children or young persons, any person who is not for the purposes of this Act over school age shall be deemed to be a child within the meaning of that enactment.