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between which employment is illegal, and the number of
daily and weekly hours beyond which employment is illegal,
and the Bye-laws may prohibit or permit, subject to conditions,
the employment of children in any specified occupation.
There is also power by Section 2 to make Bye-laws for the
regulation of street trading by persons under 16, which includes
conditions as to sex and age, requirement of a license, determining
the days and hours during which, and the places at which, such
street trading may be carried on.
The Bye-laws may require such street traders to wear badges,
and to regulate generally the conduct of such street traders.
The Bye-laws shall have special regard to the desirability of preventing
the employment of girls under 16 in streets or public places.
By Section 8 a Justice of the Peace may empower an Officer
of a Local Authority to enter a place where it is believed a child
is illegally employed.
Section 11 provides that a license under Section 3 of the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children Act, 1894, shall not be granted by
a Petty Sessional Court to a child under 10 years of age.
By Section 3 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, 1894,
a Petty Sessional Court is empowered to grant a license to any
child above 7 years of age to take part in any entertainment, or
any circus, or any other place of Public Amusement, or to be
trained as an acrobat, or for a dangerous performance, but now,
no child under 10 can henceforth be employed in a Theatre at
all, nor can any child under 14 be employed in a Theatre at night,
except when specially permitted by a Bye-law of a Local Authority.
Section 13 gives the definition of street trading, wnich includes
hawking of newspapers, matches, flowers, and other articles, play-
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