Prohibited Employments

Prohibited Employments

No child of any age may be employed:

  • In a cinema, theatre or discotheque, dance hall or night club, (except in connection with a performance given entirely by children OR under the terms and conditions of an entertainment licence.
  • To sell or deliver alcohol except in sealed containers.
  • To deliver milk or fuel oils.
  • In a commercial kitchen.
  • To collect or sort refuse.
  • In any work more than three metres above ground, or in the case of internal work three metres above floor level.
  • In employment involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents.
  • In work involving exposure to adult material or in situations which are for this reason otherwise unsuitable to children.
  • In telephone sales.
  • In a slaughterhouse or in butcher's shop or other place connected with the killing/butchery of livestock or the preparation of meat for sale.
  • As an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade, or in any other place used for the purpose of public amusement by automatic machines, games of chance, or skill etc.
  • In personal care of residents of any residential home or nursing home unless under the supervision of a responsible adult.
  • To collect money or canvass door to door, except under the supervision of an adult.
  • Before the hour of 7am.

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