Employment of Children Act, 1903

Definitions.

13. In this Act—

The expression “child” means a person under the age of fourteen years:

The expression “guardian,” used in reference to a child, includes any person who is liable to maintain or has the actual custody of the child:

The expressions “employ” and “employment,” used in reference to a child, include employment in any labour exercised by way of trade or for the purposes of gain, whether the gain be to the child or to any other person:

The expression “local authority” means, in the case of the City of London, the mayor, aldermen and commons of that city in common council assembled, in the case of a municipal borough with a population, according to the census of nineteen hundred and one, of over ten thousand, the borough council, and in the case of any other urban district with a population, according to the census of nineteen hundred and one, of over twenty thousand, the district council, and elsewhere the county council:

The expression “street trading” includes the hawking of newspapers, matches, flowers and other articles, playing, singing or performing for profit, shoe-blacking and any other like occupation carried on in streets or public places.