Provisions the documents cite: s.8 (compulsory school age), s.558 (child means a person not over compulsory school age for enactments on employment of children), s.559 (local authority power to prohibit or restrict a child's employment), s.560 (work experience in the last two years of compulsory schooling)
What it requires
s.8 — a person begins to be of compulsory school age at five (on or after a prescribed day) and ceases at the end of the school leaving date for the calendar year in which they turn 16 (or the next school leaving date after turning 16); the prescribed days and the school leaving date are set by order, which was not read. s.558 — for any enactment prohibiting or regulating the employment of children or young persons, a person not over compulsory school age is deemed a child; this is what sets the age for the Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act 1920 prohibition on employing a child in an industrial undertaking (register entry ewypc-act-1920). s.560 — the enactments prohibiting or regulating the employment of children do not apply to a child in the last two years of compulsory schooling (from the start of the last two school years at their school during any part of which they are of compulsory school age) employed under arrangements made by a local authority, or by a school's governing body on its behalf, to give work experience as part of their education. The exception does not permit employment contrary to an enactment that applies by a stated age in years (s.560(3)); no arrangement may place the child in work that would be unlawful for a young person (s.560(4)); and every enactment regulating young persons' employment — exclusions from work, conditions and the rest — applies to the child as if they were a young person (s.560(5)), so the young person risk assessment under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 applies. s.559 — a local authority may prohibit or restrict the employment of a registered pupil whose employment is prejudicial to their health or education, and failing to comply is an offence. Extent of these sections is England and Wales.
The instrument itself: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56. The summary above is our plain-English reading, not the text of the instrument — always work from the source.
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