Prohibited employment:

• In any work which is more than 3 metres above floor level
• In a commercial kitchen
• As an attendant or assistant in a fairground or amusement arcade or in any premises used for the purpose of public entertainment by means of automatic machines, games of chance or skill or similar devices
• To sell or deliver alcohol: except in sealed containers
• In a cinema, theatre, discotheque, dance hall or night club (unless licensed to perform there)
• To collect or sort refuse
• In any slaughterhouse or other premises connected with the killing of livestock.
• In or in connection with any racing course or track, or other place where any like sport is carried on, or as an assistant in any business conducted therein.
• In any agricultural work involving heavy strain.
• In the delivery or sale of fuel oils.
• As an agent for the collection of money.
• Employment at any machine prescribed as dangerous in an order made under section 19 of the Offices, Shops and Railways Premises Act 1963, or at any agricultural machine prescribed as dangerous in other relevant acts.

Employers of children working out of doors must ensure that the child has suitable clothes and shoes for protection against bad weather.

No child can be employed for more than 4 hours continuously without a period of rest lasting at least 1 hour.