Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act 1956

Measures for Avoiding Accidents to Children

7 Power to prohibit children from riding on or driving vehicles, machinery or implements used in agriculture

(1) Regulations may be made for prohibiting children who have not attained the age at which their employment ceases to be prohibited under paragraph (a) .of subsection (1) of section eighteen of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, from riding on or driving vehicles or machines of prescribed classes while the vehicles or machines are being used in the course of agricultural operations or are going to or from the site of such operations or from riding on agricultural implements of prescribed classes while the implements are being towed or propelled (whether by vehicles, machines or animals).

(2) A prohibition imposed by regulations under this section may be absolute or may be limited by reference to particular circumstances, and in this section the expression " prescribed " means prescribed by regulations thereunder.

(3) A person who causes or permits a child, in contravention of the provisions of regulations under this section, to ride on or drive a vehicle or machine or, as the case may be, to ride on an agricultural implement, shall be guilty of an offence.