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Law in 101 words

24 October 2013 / Roderick Ramage
Issue: 7581 / Categories: Features
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Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

Children at work

The main restrictions on work (SI 1998/276 with SI 2000/1333 and 2548) are:

  • none under age 14, before 7am or after 7pm;
  • when required to attend school, none before the close of school hours or more than two hours a day or twelve hours a week;
  • not more than eight or, if under age 15, five hours a day or two on Sunday;
  • not more than 35 or, if under age 15 years, 25 hours a week or more than four a day without a rest break of at one hour; and
  • not during two consecutive weeks during a school holiday.

Chiltern Hundreds

A member of parliament cannot resign. Section 1 of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 lists the grounds on which a person is disqualified from membership, one of which is that he holds any office described in Sch 1. By s4, the office of steward or bailiff of Her Majesty’s three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and

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