Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act, 1920 : 10 & 11 Geo. 5. Ch. 65.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1920]
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Credit: Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act, 1920 : 10 & 11 Geo. 5. Ch. 65. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Children Act, 1920. oc) tae Ly ae 5 Pa es iS 4 ¢ a Ris \< Sj Rw ee \: Pee ac’ ». Sk OTS Be KO oe CS mY re} Bae by SS sa CHAPTER 65. An Act to carry out certain Conventions relating to A.D. 1920. the employment of Women, Young Persons, and ~—— Children, and to amend the law with respect to the employment of Women and Young Persons in Factories and Workshops. [23rd December 1920. ] W HEREAS at Washington, on the twenty-eighth day of November, nineteen hundred and nineteen, a general conference of the International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations adopted three conventions containing (together with other provisions) the provisions set out in Part [., Part IT. and Part III. of the Schedule to this Act : And whereas at Genoa on the ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, a general conference of the International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations adopted a convention containing (together with other provisions) the provisions set out in Part IV. of the Schedule to this Act: — And whereas it is expedient that for the purpose of carrying out the said conventions the provisions hereinafter contained should have effect : And whereas it is expedient to make further provision as to the conditions under which women and young persons may be employed in factories and workshops : Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 1.—(1) No child shall be employed in any industrial Restrictions undertaking. ae (2) No child shall be employed in any ship except to the women, extent to which and in the circumstances in which such employ- young per- ment is permitted under-the Convention set out in Part IV. of peo the Schedule to this Act. industrial (3) No young person or woman shall be employed at night Undertakings. in any industrial undertaking, except to the extent to which