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Child Employment - Prohibited Employment for Children

No child of any age may be employed:

in a cinema, theatre, discotheque, dance hall or night club, except in connection with a performance given entirely by children.
to sell or deliver alcohol, except in sealed containers.
to deliver milk.
to deliver fuel oils.
in a commercial kitchen.
to collect or sort refuse
in any work which is more than three metres above ground/ floor level.
in employment involving harmful exposure to physical, biological or chemical agents.
to collect money or canvass door to door except under the supervision of an adult.
in work involving exposure to adult material or in situations which are for this reason otherwise unsuitable for children.
in telephone sales.
in any slaughterhouse or in that part of any butcher’s shop or other premises connected with the killing of livestock, butchery, or 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 or chance or skill or similar device.
in the personal care of residents of any residential care home or nursing home unless under the supervision of a responsible adult.

This does not prevent children taking part in a performance under the provisions of a licence granted in accordance with the Children and Young Persons Act, 1963 (external link) and the associated regulations.

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