Page:The Agricultural Children Act, 1873, and the Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867.djvu/11

36 & 37 VICT. c. 67.

[5th August, 1873.]

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:—

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Agricultural Children Act, 1873."

2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

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.