Page:The Agricultural Children Act, 1873, and the Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867.djvu/22

18 "Gangmaster" shall mean any person, whether male or female, who hires children, young persons, or women with a view to their being employed in agricultural labour on lands not in his own occupation; and, until the contrary is proved, any children, young persons, or women employed in agricultural labour on lands not in the occupation of the person who hired them shall be deemed to have been hired with the aforesaid view:

"Agricultural gang" shall mean a body of children, young persons, and women, or any of them, under the control of a gangmaster.

4. The following regulations shall be observed by every gangmaster with respect to the employment of children, young persons, and women:

(1.) No child under the age of ten years shall be employed in any agricultural gang:

(2.) No females shall be employed in the same agricultural gang with males:

(3.) No female shall be employed in any gang under any male gangmaster unless a female licensed to act as gangmaster is also present with that gang:

And any gangmaster employing any child, young person, or woman in contravention of this section, and any occupier of land on which such employment takes place, unless he proves that it took place without his knowledge, shall respectively be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for each child, young person, or woman so employed.

5. No person shall act as a gangmaster unless he has obtained a licence to act as such under this Act.