S.L. 452.92 Art. 4Working time.

(1) The working time for a child who is authorised to work in terms of regulation 3(3)(b) shall not exceed that shown in the Schedule.

(2) The working time for adolescents shall not exceed eight hours a day and forty hours a week.

(3) Any time spent on training by a young person working under a theoretical and, or practical combined work, training scheme or an in-plant work-experience scheme shall be counted as working time.

(4) (a) Where a young person is employed by more than one employer, working days and working time shall be cumulative and shall not exceed the working days and working times established by these regulations.

(b) It shall be the duty of the employer to ascertain whether a young person is performing work for another employer and to ascertain the working time in any other employment.

(c) If a young person has more than one employment, it shall also be the duty of the parent, in the case of employment of a child, or in the case of the employment of an adolescent, the duty of the adolescent, to inform the employer of the hours of work carried out for another employer.

(d) An employer shall not permit a young person to carry out any form of work on any day on which that young person has done any form of work for any other employer, unless the aggregate working time with more than one employer on that day does not exceed the total time for which such a young person may lawfully work for one employer on that day according to these regulations.

(5) Whenever an employer employs a young person in contravention of the preceding sub-regulation, the employer shall be guilty of an offence and the young person, if he or she is an adolescent, or the parent in the case of a child, shall also be guilty of an offence.

(6) Whenever an employer is prosecuted for an offence under this regulation, it shall be a defence for him to prove:

(a) that he did not know, and could not by reasonable enquiry have known, that the employee had carried out work for any other employer on the day in respect of which the prosecution is brought; or

(b) that he did not know, or could not by reasonable enquiry have known, that the aggregate of the periods for which the employee worked on that day exceeded the period for which the employee could lawfully work for one employer on that day.