Types of work allowed and restrictions
No child of any age may be employed
- In a cinema, theatre or discotheque, dance hall or night club, (except in connection with a performance given entirely by children or under the terms and conditions of an entertainment licence).
- To sell or deliver alcohol except in sealed containers.
- To deliver milk or fuel oils.
- In a commercial kitchen.
- To collect or sort refuse.
- In any work more than three metres above ground, or in the case of internal work three metres above floor level.
- In employment involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents.
- In work involving exposure to adult material or in situations which are for this reason otherwise unsuitable to children.
- In telephone sales.
- In a slaughterhouse or in butcher's shop or other place connected with the killing/butchery of livestock or the preparation of meat for sale.
- As an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade, or in any other place used for the purpose of public amusement by automatic machines, games of chance, or skill etc.
- In personal care of residents of any residential home or nursing home unless under the supervision of a responsible adult.
- To collect money or canvass door to door, except under the supervision of an adult.
- Before 7am or after 7pm.
Examples of light work allowed
- Agricultural or horticultural work.
- Delivery of newspapers, journals etc.
- Shop work.
- Hairdressing salons.
- Office work.
- Car washing (by hand in a private residential setting).
- In a cafe or restaurant.
- In a riding stables.
- Domestic work in hotels etc.