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SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 30

Application of provisions relating to employment of young persons.

30.(1) The provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the employment of
young persons shall, without prejudice to any other provision of this Act,
apply to every young person employed

(a)in connection with a business carried on at any such premises or place, in
carrying messages or running errands or in the collection or delivery of
goods, being employment wholly or mainly outside such premises or place; or

(b)wholly or mainly in connection with any retail trade or business (including
the sale of programmes, catalogues and other similar sales) carried on in a
theatre;

Provided that such provisions shall in their application to young persons
employed wholly or mainly in connection with any retail trade or business
carried on in a theatre be subject to the modification that, in the case of a
young person who has attained the age of sixteen years employed in a theatre
where a performance is taking place which begins before and ends after ten
o'clock in the evening, the interval of at least eleven consecutive hours
required by section twenty-eight of this Act need not include any time between
ten o'clock in the evening and the time at which a performance ends.

(2) In any provision in this Part of this Act relating to the employment of
young persons references to a shop shall be construed as including in relation
to any retail trade or business carried on in a theatre, a reference to such
theatre and references to the occupier of a shop shall be construed as
including in relation to such trade or business a reference to the owner of
the theatre.

(3) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to authorise the employment of any
young person in any case where that employment is prohibited, restricted or
regulated under the provisions of any other enactment for the time being in
force.

Provisions as to trading elsewhere than in shops.



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