No. 16/1996:

PROTECTION OF YOUNG PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) ACT, 1996

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Interpretation.

2 Industrial work.

3 Prohibition on employment of children.

4 Additional provisions in relation to employment of children.

5 Duties of employer in relation to young persons and children.

6 Employment of young persons.

7 Employment of young persons under licence.

8 Employment of young persons under regulations.

9 Exclusion from or modification of certain provisions of Act by regulations in relations to employment of close relatives.

10 Prohibition on double employment.

11 Time spent on vocational training.

12 Display of abstract of Act.

13 Preservation of existing rates of pay and conditions of employment.

14 Emergency as defence.

15 Employer records.

16 Recovery of money due to employee.

17 Refusal by child or young person to corporate with employer in breaching Act.

18 Complaints to rights commissioners.

19 Appeals from and enforcement of recommendations of rights commissioners.

20 Enforcement of determination of Tribunal.

21 Evidence of failure to attend before or give evidence or produce documents to Tribunal.

22 Powers of inspectors.

23 Offences by bodies corporate.

24 Prosecution.

25 Penalties.

26 Repeals.

27 Expenses.

28 Regulations.

29 Short title and Commencement.

FIRST SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE

AN ACT TO REVISE AND EXTEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF YOUNG PERSONS IN EMPLOYMENT AND TO ENABLE EFFECT TO BE GIVEN TO COUNCIL DIRECTIVE NO. 94/33/EC OF 22 JUNE 1994 ON THE PROTECTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AT WORK (OTHER THAN ARTICLES 6 AND 7) AND FOR THOSE PURPOSES TO REPEAL THE PROTECTION OF YOUNG PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) ACT, 1977 , AND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT, 1936 , AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.

[26th June, 1996]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: