112 Extended work experience for Key Stage 4 pupils.E+W
(1)Section 560 of the M1Education Act 1996 (work experience during compulsory schooling) shall be amended as follows.
(2)For subsections (1) and (2) there shall be substituted—
“(1)The enactments relating to the prohibition or regulation of the employment of children shall not apply to the employment of a child in his last two years of compulsory schooling if the employment is in pursuance of arrangements made—
(a)by a local education authority, or
(b)by the governing body of a school on behalf of such an authority,
with a view to providing him with work experience as a part of his education.
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1) a child shall be taken to be in his last two years of compulsory schooling as from the beginning of the last two school years at his school during the whole or part of which he is of compulsory school age.”
(3)In subsection (6) (disapplication of sections 495 and 496 of the Act), the words “or the governing body of a grant-maintained school” shall be omitted.
Commencement Information
I1S. 112 partly in force; s. 112 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 145(3); s. 112(1)(2) in force at 1.10.1998 by S.I. 1998/2212, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I
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