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Children and Young Persons Act 1963

CH. 37

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PART II

EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS

General provisions as to employment

34. For paragraph (c) of section 18(1) of the principal Act Hours of (which prohibits the employment of children before six o'clock employment. in the morning or after eight o'clock in the evening) and for paragraph (c) of section 28(1) of the principal Scottish Act (which prohibits such employment before six o'clock in the morning or after seven o'clock in the evening, or at certain times of the year eight o'clock in the evening) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

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(c) before seven o'clock in the morning or after seven

o'clock in the evening on any day; or

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35.—(1) In section 20(1) of the principal Act (which, subject Street to certain exceptions, prohibits persons under the age of sixteen trading. from engaging or being employed in street trading) for the word "sixteen", in both places where it occurs, there shall be sub- stituted the word “seventeen ".

(2) Nothing in the said section 20 or section 30 of the principal Scottish Act or in any byelaw made under either of those sections shall restrict the engagement or employment of any person in the carrying on in any place of a retail trade or business (within the meaning of the Shops Act 1950) on any occasion on which it is customary for retail trades or businesses to be carried on in that place.

(3) At the end of the said section 20 there shall be added the following subsection:---

"(3) No person under the age of eighteen shall on a Sunday engage or be employed in street trading of a descrip- tion to which, notwithstanding section 58 of the Shops Act 1950 (which extends certain provisions to any place where a retail trade or business is carried on), those provisions do not extend."

36. Section 21 of the principal Act and section 31 of the Increase principal Scottish Act (which impose penalties for contraventions of certain of the general provisions of those Acts as to employment) shall penalties each be amended, as respects offences committed after the com- mencement of this Act, as follows:

(a) in subsection (1) (which provides for fines not exceeding five pounds and twenty pounds for first and subsequent offences respectively) for the words "five pounds" there shall be substituted the words "twenty pounds" and for the words twenty pounds" the words "fifty pounds "; and

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