Permitted and prohibited employment for children

Permitted employment for children aged 13

A child aged 13 cannot be employed except in light work in one or more of the following specified categories:

No child of any age may be employed:

in a cinema, theatre, discotheque, dance hall or night club
to sell or deliver alcohol, except in sealed containers
to deliver milk
to deliver fuel oils
in a commercial kitchen (includes the kitchen of any hotel, cook shop, fried fish shop, eating house or refreshment room)
to collect or sort refuse
in any work which is more than three metres above ground level or, in the case of internal work, more than three metres above floor level.
in employment having harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agent
to collect money or to sell or canvass door to door
in work involving exposure to adult material or in situation which are for this reason otherwise unsuitable for children
in telephone sales and canvassing
in any slaughterhouse or in that part of any butcher’s shop or other premises connected with the killing of livestock, butchery, or in the preparation of carcasses or meat for sale
as an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade or in any other premises used for the purpose of public amusement by means of automatic machines, games of chance or skill or similar devices
in the personal care of residents of any residential care home or nursing home