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[23 GEO. 5.]

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.

[CH. 12.]

Employment Abroad.

A.D. 1933.

PART II. -cont.

25.-(1) No person having the custody, charge or care of any person under the age of eighteen years shall allow him, nor shall any person cause or procure any Restrictions person under that age, to go abroad for the purpose of on persons singing, playing, performing, or being exhibited, for profit, under unless he has attained the age of fourteen years and a eighteen licence has been granted in respect of him under this going

section:

abroad for

the purpose

Provided that this subsection shall not apply in of per- any case where it is proved that the person under the forming for age of eighteen years was only temporarily resident profit. within Great Britain and Ireland.

(2) A police magistrate may grant a licence in such form as the Secretary of State may prescribe, and subject to such restrictions and conditions as the police magistrate thinks fit, for any person who has attained the age of fourteen years but is under the age of eighteen years to go abroad for the purpose of singing, playing, perform- ing, or being exhibited, for profit, but no such licence shall be granted in respect of any person unless the police magistrate is satisfied-

(a) that the application for the licence is made by or with the consent of his parent or guardian; (b) that he is going abroad to fulfil a particular

engagement;

(c) that he is fit for the purpose, and that proper provision has been made to secure his health, kind treatment, and adequate supervision while abroad, and his return from abroad at the expira- tion or revocation of the licence;

(d) that there has been furnished to him a copy of the contract of employment or other document showing the terms and conditions of employment drawn up in a language understood by him.

(3) A person applying for a licence under this section, shall, at least seven days before making the application, give to the chief officer of police for the district in which the person resides to whom the appli- cation relates, notice of the intended application together with a copy of the contract of employment or other document showing the terms and conditions of employ- ment, and the chief officer of police shall send that copy

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