The Children (Performances) Regulations 1968

PART I APPLICATION FOR LICENCE, ETC

Application for a licence

1.—(1) An application to a licensing authority for a licence authorising a child to take part in a performance to which section 37 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 applies shall be made in writing in the form set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations or in a form to the like effect and shall be signed by the applicant and a parent of the child and shall be accompanied by the documents specified therein.

(2) The applicant shall be the person responsible for the production of the performance in which the child is to take part.

(3) The licensing authority may refuse to grant a licence if the application form is not received by them at least twenty-one days before the day on which the first performance for which the licence is required takes place.

Power of licensing authorities to obtain additional information

2.—(1) The licensing authority may make such inquiries as they consider necessary to enable them to be satisfied that they should grant a licence as required by section 37(4) of the Act, and in particular they may request a report from the head teacher in respect of the child, they may request that the child be medically examined in order to ascertain whether he is fit to take part in the performances for which the licence is requested and that his health will not suffer by reason of taking part in such performances and may interview the applicant, the child and his parents and the proposed matron and private teacher (if any).

(2) The licensing authority may make such inquiries as they consider necessary to enable them to consider, if a licence should be granted, whether the licence should be granted subject to a condition relating to the manner in which sums earned by the child in taking part in any performance to which the licence relates should be dealt with.

Form of licence

3.—(1) A licence granted to an applicant by a licensing authority shall be in the form set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations or in a form to the like effect.

(2) The licence shall specify the names, dates, places and nature of the performances except that in the case of a licence granted to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Independent Television Authority, a programme contractor within the meaning of section 1(5) of the Television Act 1964 or a body supplying programmes to such a programme contractor to be broadcast by the Independent Television Authority or a licence authorising a child to take part in a performance to be recorded (by whatever means) with a view to its use in a film intended for public exhibition the licence may, if the applicant so requests in the application form, in lieu of specifying the said dates, specify the number of days on which the child may perform, and the period, not exceeding six months, in which the performances may take place.

(3) One print of the photograph of the child accompanying the application form shall be attached to the licence; the other print shall be retained by the licensing authority.

(4) The licensing authority shall send a copy of the licence to the parent who signed the application form.

Particulars to sent be to a local authority under section 39(3) of the Act

4.  Where a place of performance specified in a licence is in the area of another local authority, the licensing authority shall send to that local authority a copy of the application form and the licence and such other information, if any, relating to the child as they think appropriate.

Records to be kept by the holder of a licence under section 39(5) of the Act

5.  The holder of a licence shall keep the records specified in Schedule 3 to these Regulations, and shall retain them for six months after the performance or last performance to which the licence relates.