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General restrictions on employment of children.
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3.—(1) A child shall not be employed between the hours of nine in the evening and six in the morning: Provided that any local authority may, by byelaw, vary these hours either generally or for any specified occupation.
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(2) A child under the age of eleven years shall not be employed in street trading.
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(3) No child who is employed half-time under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, shall be employed in any other occupation.
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(4) A child shall not be employed to lift, carry or move anything so heavy as to be likely to cause injury to the child.
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(5) A child shall not be employed in any occupation likely to be injurious to his life, limb, health or education, regard being had to his physical condition.
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(6) If the local authority send to the employer of any child a certificate, signed by a registered medical practitioner, that the lifting, carrying or moving of any specified weight is likely to cause injury to the child, or that any specified occupation is likely to be injurious to the life, limb, health or education of the child, the certificate shall be admissible as evidence in any subsequent proceedings against the employer in respect of the employment of the child.
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