36 & 37 Vict. c. 67.
An Act to regulate the Employment of Children in Agriculture.
Whereas it is expedient to make regulations with respect to the employment of children in the execution of various kinds of agricultural work, with a view to their better education:
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Short Title.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Agricultural Children Act, 1873."
Extent of Act.
2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.
Commencement of Act.
3. This Act shall not come into operation until the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, which date is hereinafter referred to as the commencement of this Act.[1]
- ↑ The evident object of fixing so distant a date for the commencement of the Act is that ample opportunity should be offered to parents to cause their children to qualify. The first qualifying year will therefore be the year ending December 31, 1874, and it will probably be found in practice very convenient to all parties that, as far as possible, certificates should always run from January to December.
