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(d) The expression "street trading," includes the hawking of
newspapers, matches, flowers, and other articles; playing,
singing, or performing for profit; shoeblacking; and any other
like occupation carried on in the streets or public places.
(c) The expression "industrial work" means any work in which
manual labour is exercised by way of trade, or for the purposes
of gain in making, altering, repairing, ornamenting,
finishing, adapting for sale, or cleaning any article.
(/) The expression "Local Education Authority" means the Local
Education Authority for the purposes of Part III. of the
Education Act, 1902.
II.—As to Prohibited Employments.
1.—A child shall not be employed in any of the following occupations
: —
(a) To lather customers, or in a similar occupation, in a barber's
or hairdresser's shop.
(b) In the kitchen of any hotel, cook-shop, eating-house, or refreshment
room.
(c) As a marker or attendant in any billiard or bagatelle saloon,
or other place licensed for games.
(d) In or in connection with the sale of intoxicating liquors, except
in grocers' or chemists' shops where such liquors are sold exclusively
in sealed vessels.
(e) In selling programmes or refreshments or other articles, or in
taking checks or tickets, or in shifting scenery, in any theatre,
cinematograph hall, or other place of public entertainment.
(f) In the collection or sorting of rags or refuse.
(g) As an attendant or assistant in any shop or hall used for the
purpose of public amusement by means of automatic machines,
mutoscopes, shooting ranges, games of chance or skill, or
similar devices.
(h) In any slaughter-house.
III.— As to the Employment of Children Generally.
2.—A child under the age of 13 years shall not be employee.
3.—A child between the ages of 13 and 14 shall only be employed :—
(a) On days when the school attended is open for morning or
noon session, between the hours of 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
(b) On days other than Sundays when the school attended is not
open, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12 noon, except in the
delivery of milk or newspapers, in which occupations such child
may also be employed between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.
(c) On Sundays, in the delivery of milk or newspapers, between the
hours of 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
4.—A child between the ages of 13 and 14 shall not be employed in
the delivery of milk or newspapers, or in carrying or delivering goods
or parcels, or in or in connection with any shop, or in any coal yard, or
in industrial work at home, or in agricultural work, unless within
thirty days after these byelaws come into operation, or, in the case of
a child not so employed until after that date, within fourteen days
from the date when employment begins, the child has obtained from the
School Medical Officer a certificate (for which no charge shall be made),
that such employment will not be prejudicial to such child's health or
physical development and will not render the child unfit to obtain the
proper benefit from education, and the certificate has been produced to
and endorsed by the employer.