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EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 51



51.(1) For the purposes of any enactment relating to the prohibition or
regulation of the employment of children or young persons, any person who is
not for the purposes of this Order over compulsory school age shall be deemed
to be a child within the meaning of that enactment.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment, a child may, to the
like extent and subject to the like conditions as a young person be employed
in employment in pursuance of arrangements made or approved by a board for the
purpose of giving that child work experience as part of his education but may
be so employed only from the following dates:

(a)if the child attains the age of fifteen years on any date occurring in the
period beginning on 1st September in any year and ending on 31st January in
the following year, at any time on or after the date on which the summer term
at his school in that following year begins;

(b)if the child attains the age of fifteen years on any date occurring in the
period beginning on 1st February and ending on 31st August in any year, at any
time on or after the date on which the autumn term at his school in that year
begins.

(3) In paragraph (2)

"summer term" and "autumn term" have the meanings assigned to them by Article
36(6);

"work experience" means the participation of children in employment in
industrial, commercial, public authority and statutory undertakings, the
object of which is to give to the children a greater understanding of the
conditions, disciplines and relationships in those undertakings.



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