PART II. -cont.

[CH. 12.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[23 GEO. 5.]

A.D. 1933. respect to any person, the justice may by order under his hand addressed to an officer of the local authority, or to a constable, empower him to enter, at any reasonable time within forty-eight hours of the making of the order, any place in or in connection with which the person in question is, or is believed to be, employed, or as the case may be, in which he is, or is believed to be, taking part in an entertainment or performance, or being trained, and to make enquiries therein with respect to that person.

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(2) Any authorised officer of the local authority or any constable may at any time during the currency of a licence granted under section twenty-two or twenty- four of this Act enter any place where the person to whom the licence relates is authorised by the licence to take part in an entertainment or to be trained, and may make enquiries therein with respect to that person.

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(3) Any person who obstructs any officer constable in the due exercise of any powers conferred on him by or under this section, or who refuses to answer or answers falsely any enquiry authorised by or under this section to be made, shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

29.-(1) The provisions of this Act imposing restric- tions on employment or on the taking part by children in entertainments, other than those relating to employment abroad, and the provisions of any byelaws made under this Part of this Act, shall not apply in relation to a person who has attained the age of twelve years taking part in a performance, whether of the nature of an enter- tainment or not, which is being broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation, so long as the public are not admitted thereto on payment.

(2) The said provisions shall not affect the provisions of Part IV of the Education Act, 1921, with respect to school attendance or the provisions of sections ninety- three, ninety-four and ninety-five of that Act with respect to the employment of children and young persons.

(3) The said provisions shall not apply to a person detained in an approved school.

(4) The said provisions shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any enactments relating to

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