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(3) Evening School in Homecraft at the Domestic
Subjects Centre.
(4) Evening School at Chiswick Products' Works for
Girls only.
There is also one school in Brentford operating at the
Brentford Senior Schools, for both boys and girls.
21.—EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG
PERSONS.
The following extract from the Bye-laws made under the
Employment of Children Act, 1913, and Education Act, 1918,
shews the conditions under which children may be employed :—
(1) A child under the age of 12 years shall not be employed.
(2) A child may be employed at the following times not
exceeding 16 hours in any week :—
(a) On schooldays If employed in the delivery of
for two hours milk or newspapers, from
7 a.m. to 8 a.m. and from
5 p.m. to 6 p.m., subject to
the issue of a satisfactory certificate
by the School Medical
Officer. For all other occupations
allowed by Bye-laws
from 5 to 7 p.m. only.
(b) On Saturdays The five hours of employment
and school are to be fixed by the emholidays
for ployer and must provide for a
five hours period of rest and recreation
of not less than five hours
between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
(c) On Sundays Between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m.
for two hours for the delivery of milk or
newspapers only.
Note.—Every purveyor of milk or newsagent employing
a child before school hours in the delivery of milk or newspapers
shall see that such child is provided, during the course of such
employment, with efficient waterproof footwear and a sufficient
waterproof garment to protect the child from injury to health
from inclement weather.