Part IIU.K. Employment of Children and Young Persons

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. II (ss. 34-44): functions of local authority not to be responsibility of an executive of the authority (E.) (16.11.2000) by virtue of S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1

General provisions as to employmentE+W+S

36 Increase of certain penalties. E+W+S

Section 21 of the principal Act and section 31 of the principal Scottish Act (which impose penalties for contraventions of the general provisions of those Acts as to employment) shall each be amended, as respects offences committed after the commencement 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

(b)in subsection (3) (which provides for fines of twenty shillings and forty shillings for first and subsequent offences respectively) for the words “twenty shillings” there shall be substituted the words “ten pounds” and for the words “forty shillings” the words “twenty pounds”.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2The text of ss. 16(1), 17(1)(2), 25(1), 31, 32, 34, 35(3), 36, 38(2), 43, 57(1), 64(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.