The Employment of Children (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Conditions of employment for all children3

1

No child shall be employed for more than twelve hours in any week in which he is required to attend school.

2

No child shall be employed for a period more than one hour before the commencement of school hours on any day in which he is required to attend school, and such period shall end not later than half an hour before the school he is required to attend is due to open on that day.

3

No child shall be employed for more than two hours on a Sunday.

4

A child engaged in employment shall be allowed an uninterrupted period of two weeks holiday during the period between 1st July and 31st August (both dates inclusive).

5

No child shall be employed in any other occupation on the day of, days of, or day following a performance to which Article 137 of the Order applies.

6

No child shall be employed in any occupation out of doors unless the employer ensures that the child is suitably shod and suitably clad for protection against the weather.

7

No child shall be employed without the written consent of his parent.

Employment cards6

1

Each employer of any child shall, not less than seven days prior to employing the child, give notice to the appropriate board on the appropriate application form and such notice shall contain the following particulars—

a

the age of the child;

b

the full name an address of the child and of his employer;

c

the proposed occupation in which the child is to be employed;

d

the proposed date of commencement of the employment;

e

the place of such employment;

f

the hours of such employment;

g

the days, not exceeding six, on which the child is to be employed each week.

2

Provided no grounds for objection are evident, the appropriate board shall issue to each child in respect of whom notification under paragraph (1) has been received, a card, and thereafter such card shall be held by the employer during the currency of the child’s employment and shall be produced for inspection at the request of any authorised officer on production of his credentials.

3

The board shall cause to be entered on the employment card the name and address and date of birth of the child, the occupation in which and the times specified by the employer between which the employment is permitted; and the times so entered shall be such as are permitted by these Regulations and the Order and may be altered within the scope thereof by the board from time to time on the application of the employer, and the board shall issue a new employment card if the arrangements of employment change.

4

No child for whom an employment card has been issued in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations shall be employed except in the occupations and within the times entered thereon by the board.

5

An employer of a child for whom an employment card has been issued shall permit an authorised officer to enter and inspect any premises or other place on which the child is employed and shall permit the officer to interrogate the child if so requested.