Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1938 : 1 & 2 Geo. 6. Ch. 69.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1938]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1938 : 1 & 2 Geo. 6. Ch. 69. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (Employment) Act, 1938. CHAPTER 69. An Act to regulate the hours of employment of A.D. 1938. persons under the age of eighteen yearsemployed — in certain occupations; to amend the Shops Act, 1934, with respect to the regulation of the hours of employment of persons under the age of sixteen years, and with respect to the determination of the number of working hours of persons under the age of eighteen years; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. [29th July 1938. | E it 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 :— Part I, EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS. Hours and Holidays. 1.—(1) The total number of hours worked by a Conditions young person to whom this Part of this Act applies, of employ- exclusive of intervals allowed for meals and rest, ™&?*- shall,— (a) in the case of a person who has attained the age of sixteen years, not exceed forty-eight in any week ; wnat wil