"Employer" shall mean any person occupying not less than one acre of land:
"Agent" shall mean any person acting as bailiff or foreman or on behalf of any employer, including any person contracting[1] for the execution of any kind of agricultural work on land in the occupation of any employer:
"Summary Jurisdiction Acts" shall mean the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled "An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders,"[2] and any Acts amending the same:
"Court of summary jurisdiction" shall mean any justice or justices of the peace, metropolitan police magistrate, stipendiary or other magistrate, or officer, by whatever name called, to whom jurisdiction is given by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts or any Acts therein referred to.
Prohibition of Employment of Children under Eight Years in agricultural Work.
5. From and after the commencement of this Act it shall not be lawful for any employer[3] or his agent[3] to employ any child under the age of eight years in the
- ↑ Reference is here made to those contractors for labour who bear the name of "Agricultural Gang-masters." The abuses of the system were strikingly brought out by the "Royal Commission on the Employment of Children Young Persons, and Women in Agriculture, 1867."
- ↑ † This is the well-known "Jervis's Act." The amending Acts have not been numerous. The chief of them are 20 & 21 Vict. c. 43, and 80 & 31 Vict. c. 35.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 ‡ See definition in § 4.
