Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 2548
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Children (Protection at Work) (No. 2) Regulations 2000
Made
19th September 2000
Laid before Parliament
20th September 2000
Coming into force
11th October 2000
The Secretary of State for Health, being a Minister designated( 1 ) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 2 ) in relation to measures relating to the employment of children and young persons, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 2(2) and of all powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Children (Protection at Work) (No. 2) Regulations 2000, and shall come into force on 11th October 2000.
(2) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1933( 3 ).
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.
Amendments of the Act
2. —(1) In section 18(1) of the Act( 4 ) (restrictions on employment of children), after paragraph (d) the following paragraph is inserted—
“ (da) for more than twelve hours in any week in which he is required to attend school; or ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Yvette Cooper
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health,
Department of Health
19th September 2000
See the European Communities (Designation) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/266 ), article 2.
Section 18 was amended by the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 (c. 37) , section 34 and 64(1) and Schedule 3, paragraph 4; by the Children Act 1972 (c. 44) , section 1(2); by the Employment of Children Act 1973 (c. 24) , which however has not been brought into force; by the Children (Protection at Work) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/276 ), Regulation 2 and by the Children (Protection at Work) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1333 ), Regulation 2.