Employment of Children Act, 1903

Application to Scotland.

41 & 42 Vict. c. 78.

1 Edw. 7. c. 9.

55 & 56 Vict. c. 55.

14. In the application of this Act to Scotland—

(1) The Secretary for Scotland shall be substituted for the Secretary of State:

(2) The sheriff or sheriff-substitute” shall be substituted for “a court of summary jurisdiction”:

(3) Any fine or penalty under this Act shall be recoverable by imprisonment in terms of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts:

(4) The expression “local authority,” in sections one and three of this Act, shall mean the school board; and in section two of this Act shall mean, in the case of a royal, parliamentary or police burgh having, within its boundary for police purposes, according to the census of nineteen hundred and one, a population of or exceeding seven thousand, and in the case of the burgh of Coatbridge, the town council, and elsewhere the county council, and for the purposes of section two every burgh, other than those herein-before specified, shall be held to form part of the county within which it is situated: Provided that in section eight of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, the expression “purposes herein-after mentioned” shall be deemed to include the purposes of this Act:

(5) Nothing in this Act shall affect the power of the school board to grant exemptions in certain employments, as provided by sub-section three of section seven of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1878, and the expression “this Act” in the said section shall be deemed to include the Employment of Children Act, 1903:

(6) A byelaw shall not be made by a council under this Act until the expiry of a period of one month after such byelaw, as proposed to be made, has been communicated to the clerk to each school board of a parish, burgh or district comprised or partly comprised within the area of such council for the purposes of this Act, and such council shall give due consideration to any observations received from any such school board within such period; and

(7) Nothing in this Act shall make it lawful for any child to be employed in contravention of section six of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1878, or section two of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1901:

(8) Section two hundred and seventy-six of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892, is hereby repealed.