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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    Part I. —cont. [Cu. 69.] Young Persons [1 & 2 Gzo. 6.] (Employment) Act, 1938. age of sixteen years, not exceed, during one year from the commencement of this Act, forty-eight in any week, and thereafter, forty- four in any week : Provided that, a person who has attained the age of sixteen years may, on occasions of seasonal or other special pressure or in cases of emergency, work over- time, that is to say, in excess of the permitted weekly hours, so, however, that the number of hours overtime that may be worked by that person shall not exceed six in any week or fifty in any year, and where in any year, in connection with a business carried on at any premises, overtime employment of any young persons to whom this Part of this Act applies under an employer has taken place in twelve weeks (whether consecutive or not), no further overtime employment of any such persons under that employer or under any person succeeding to his business shall, during the remainder of that year, take place in connection with the business carried on at those premises. — (2) A young person to whom this Part of this Act applies shall not be employed continuously for more than five hours without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal or rest, and where the hours of employ- ment include the hours from half-past eleven in the morning to half-past two in the afternoon, an interval between those hours for dinner. (3) On at least one weekday in each week, to be notified in the prescribed form and manner, a young person to whom this Part of this Act applies shall not be employed after one o’clock in the afternoon. (4) A young person to whom this Part of this Act applies shall, in every period of twenty-four hours between midday on one day and midday on the next day, be allowed an interval of at least eleven consecutive hours which shall include the hours from ten o’clock in the evening until six o’clock in the morning. (5) A young person to whom this Part of this Act applies shall not be employed on a Sunday unless he receives in respect of his employment on that Sunday