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CH. 37
PART II
Children and Young Persons Act 1963
(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 ".
Restriction
on persons under 16
taking part in public
Entertainment
37.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a child shall not take part in a performance to which this section applies except under the authority of a licence granted by the local authority in whose area he resides or, if he does not performances, reside in Great Britain, by the local authority in whose area the applicant or one of the applicants for the licence resides or has his place of business.
etc.
(2) This section applies to-
(a) any performance in connection with which a charge is
made (whether for admission or otherwise);
(b) any performance in licensed premises within the meaning of the Licensing Act 1953 or the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1959 or in premises in respect of which a club is registered under the said Act of 1959 or the Licensing Act 1961;
(c) any broadcast performance;
(d) any performance recorded (by whatever means) with a view to its use in a broadcast or in a film intended for public exhibition;
and a child shall be treated for the purposes of this section as taking part in a performance if he takes the place of a per- former in any rehearsal or in any preparation for the recording of the performance.
(3) A licence under this section shall not be required for any child to take part in a performance to which this section applies if-
(a) in the six months preceding the performance he has not taken part in other performances to which this section applies on more than three days; or
(b) the performance is given under arrangements made by a school (within the meaning of the Education Act 1944 or the Education (Scotland) Act 1962) or made by a body of persons approved for the purposes of this section by the Secretary of State or by the local authority in whose area the performance takes place, and no pay- ment in respect of the child's taking part in the per- formance is made, whether to him or to any other person, except for defraying expenses;