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LAW FOR '1'39 acrobats, contortionists, or See also:circus performers, or for any dangerous performance; and the ChiIdren's Dangerous Performances See also:Act 1879, as amended in 1897, makes it an offence to employ a male See also:young See also:person under sixteen and a See also:female under eighteen in a dangerous public performance. The act of 1908 renders liable to a See also:fine not exceeding £25, or alternatively, or in addition thereto, imprisonment with or with-out hard labour for any See also:term not exceeding three months, any custodian, &c., of any See also:child or young. person who allows him to be in any See also:street, premises or See also:place for the purpose of begging or receiving See also:alms, or of inducing the giving of alms, whether or not there is a pretence of singing, playing, performing or offering anything for See also:sale. An important departure in the act of 1908 was the See also:attempt to prevent the exposure of See also:children to the See also:risk of burning. Any custodian, &c., of a child under seven who allows that child to be in a See also:room containing an open See also:grate not sufficiently protected to guard against the risk of burning or scalding is liable on See also:summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fro. See also:Provision is made against allowing children between the ages of four and sixteen to be in brothels; it is also made a See also:misdemeanour if any custodian, &c., of a girl under sixteen causes or encourages her See also:seduction or See also:prostitution, and any person having the custody of a young girl may be See also:bound over to exercise proper care if it is shown to the See also:satisfaction of a See also:court of summary See also:jurisdiction, on the complaint of any person, that she is exposed to such risk. The act of 1908, following legislation in many parts of the See also:United States and in some of the See also:British colonies, places a See also:penalty on selling See also:tobacco to any person apparently under the See also:age of sixteen, whether for his own use or not. It empowers constables and See also:park keepers to seize tobacco in the See also:possession of any person apparently under sixteen found smoking in any street or public place, as well as to See also:search them; it also empowers a court of summary jurisdiction to prevent automatic See also:machines for the sale of tobacco being used by young persons. The act also contains useful provisions empowering the clearing of a court whilst a child or young person is giving See also:evidence in certain cases (e.g. of decency or morality), and the forbidding children (other than infants in arms) being See also:present in court during the trial of other persons; it places a penalty on pawnbrokers taking an See also:article in See also:pawn from children under fourteen; and on vagrants for preventing children above the age of five receiving See also:education. It puts a penalty on giving intoxicating liquor to any child under the age of five, except upon the orders of a duly qualified medical practitioner, or in See also:case of sickness, or other urgent cause; also upon any holder of the See also:licence of any licensed premises who allows a child to be at any See also:time in the See also:bar of the licensed premises; or upon any person who causes or attempts to cause a child to be in the bar of licensed premises other than railway refreshment rooms or premises used for any purpose to which the holding of a licence is merely See also:auxiliary, or where the child is there simply for the purpose of passing through to some other See also:part of the premises. It makes provision for the safety of children at entertainments, and consolidates the law See also:relating to reformatory and See also:industrial See also:schools, and to juvenile offenders (see JUVENILE OFFENDERS). In the act of 19o8, " child " is defined as a person under the age of fourteen years, and " young person " as a person who is fourteen years and upwards and under the age of sixteen years. The act applies to See also:Scotland and See also:Ireland. In the application of the act to Ireland exception is made relative to the exclusion of children from bars of licensed premises, in the case of a child being on licensed premises where a substantial part of the business carried on is a drapery, grocery, hardware or other business wholly unconnected with the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the child is there for the purpose of purchasing goods other than intoxicating liquor. British Possessions.—Legislation much on the Iines of the acts of 1889-1908 has been passed in many British possessions, e.g. See also:Tasmania (1895, 1906), See also:Queensland (1896, 1905), See also:Jamaica (1896), See also:South See also:Australia (1899, 1904), New South See also:Wales (1892 and 1900), New See also:Zealand (1906), See also:Mauritius (2906), See also:Victoria (loos, s906). In South Australia a See also:State Children's See also:Department has been created to care for and See also:manage the See also:property and persons of destitute and neglected children, and the officials of the See also:council may act in cases of See also:cruelty to children; the legislation of Victoria and Queensland is based on that of South Australia. See also CHILDREN'S COURTS, EDUCATION and LABOUR LEGISLATION. (W. F. C.; T.'A. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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