Employment Medical Advisory Service Act 1972

5 Duty of factory occupier to give notice of employment of a young person. E+W+S

[F1 (1) The Factories Act 1961 shall have effect as if the following section were inserted at the end of Part VI thereof:—

“119A (1) Where the occupier of a factory takes a young person into his employment to work in the factory (or transfers to work in the factory from work elsewhere than in a factory a young person already in his employment), the occupier shall, not later than seven days after the day on which he does so, send to the local careers office a written notice stating the name of the occupier, the address of the factory and the fact of the young person’s having been so taken or transferred, and the date on which, and the work to do which, he was so taken or transferred, and giving such of the following information as is within the occupiers knowledge, namely :—

(a) the young person’s Christian name (or forename) and surname;

(b) the date of his birth;

(c) his usual residential address; and

(d) the name and address of the school (if any) which he last attended before he was so taken or transferred.

(2) In this section—

(a) “ the local careers office” means the local careers office maintained under the Employment and Training Act 1948 for the area in which the factory is situated, whether the office is maintained by the Secretary of State under section 2 or by a local education authority (within the meaning of that Act) in accordance with section 10 ; and

(b) “school” means a school within the meaning of the Education Act 1944 or the Education (Scotland) Act 1962.”]

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Textual Amendments

F1 S. 5(1) repealed (prosp.) by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. III

F2 S.5(2) repealed by Employment and Training Act 1973 (c. 50), Sch. 4

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of s. 5(1), Sch. 2, is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.