The Children (Protection at Work) Regulations 1998

Amendments to the 1933 Act

5.  In section 25(1) (restrictions on children going abroad to perform for profit)—

(a) in subsection (1) after “abroad” insert “(a)”;

(b) in that subsection, after “for profit,” insert “or”

“(b) for the purpose of taking part in a sport, or working as a model, where payment in respect of his doing so, other than for defraying expenses, is made to him or to another person,”;

(c) in subsection (2), for the words from “for the purpose” to “profit,” substitute “for any purpose referred to in subsection (1) of this section,”;

(d) in subsections (2) and (4) to (8), for “police magristrate”, wherever the words occur, substitute “justice of the peace”;

(e) in subsection (3), for “the police magistrate” in the first place where the words occur substitute “a justice of the peace” and in the subsequent places where they occur substitute “the justice of the peace”;

(f) in subsection (7), for “the magistrate” substitute “the justice of the peace”; and

(g) subsection (9) is repealed.

(1)

Section 25(1) was amended by the 1963 Act, section 64, paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 and Schedule 5; the Employment Act 1989, section 10 and paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 and by the Children Act 1989, section 108(5) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 13, Section 25(2) was amended by the Employment Act 1989, section 10 and paragraph 6 of Schedule 3.