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EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN, YOUNG PERSONS, AND CHILDREN ACT 1920 - SECT 1

Restrictions on the employment of young persons and children in industrial undertakings.

1.(1) No child shall be employed in any industrial undertaking.

[(2) No child shall be employed in any ship except to the extent to which and
in the circumstances in which such employment is permitted under the
Convention set out in Part IV of the Schedule to this Act.]

(3) No young person... shall be employed at night in any
industrial undertaking, except to the extent to which and in the circumstances
in which such employment is permitted under the Conventions set out in
Part II... of the Schedule to this Act.

(4) Where young persons are employed in any industrial undertaking, a register
of the young persons so employed, and of the dates of their birth, and of the
dates on which they enter and leave the service of their employer, shall be
kept and shall at all times be open to inspection.

[(5) There shall be included in every agreement with the crew entered into
under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, a list of the young persons under the
age of sixteen years who are members of the crew, together with particulars of
the dates of their birth, and, in the case of a ship in which there is no such
agreement, the master of the ship shall, if young persons under the age of
sixteen years are employed therein, keep a register of those persons with
particulars of the dates of their birth and of the dates on which they become
or cease to be members of the crew, and the register so kept shall at all
times be open to inspection.]

(6) This section, so far as it relates to employment in coal mines,
metalliferous mines and quarries, and factories and workshops, shall have
effect as if it formed part of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, and the Acts amending
that Act, the Metalliferous Mines Regulations Acts, 1872 and 1875, and the
Factory and Workshops Acts, 1901 to 1911 respectively; and the provisions of
those Acts relating to registers to be kept thereunder shall apply to the
registers required to be kept under this Act.

[This section, so far as it relates to employment in a ship, shall have effect
as if it formed part of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1920.]

In the case of employment in any place other than the places aforesaid [or in
any ship]

(a)If any person employs a child or a young person in any
industrial undertaking in contravention of this Act, he shall be deemed to
have employed a child or young person in contravention of the Employment of
Children Act, 1903, and subsections (1) and (2) of section five and section
six and section eight of that Act shall apply accordingly as if they were
herein re-enacted and in terms made applicable to children and young persons
within the meaning of this Act; and

[(b)If any child is employed in any ship in contravention of this Act, the
master of the ship shall be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding
[#2], or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, not exceeding five
pounds, and where a child is taken into employment in any ship in
contravention of this Act, on the production, by or with the privity of the
parent, of a false or forged certificate or on the false representation of his
parent that the child is of an age at which such employment is not in
contravention of this Act, that parent shall be liable on summary conviction
to a fine not exceeding [#2]; and]

(c)If any person being the employer of a young person fails to keep such a
register so required to be kept by him as aforesaid, or refuses or neglects
when required to produce it for inspection by an officer of a local authority
under the said Act, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding twenty pounds; and

[(d)If the master of a ship fails to keep such a register so required to be
kept by him as aforesaid, or refuses or neglects, when required to produce it
for inspection by an officer of the Board of Trade or any other person having
power to enforce compliance with the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts,
1894 to 1920, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds; and]

Para.(e) rep. by SL(R) 1978

S.2 rep. by SLR 1927; 1936 c.28 (NI) s.5(4)

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