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warrant.

Saving.

Prohibition

on

employment

in

nightclubs,

etc.

CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION

exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

37.

If it is made to appear to a Justice of the Peace that there

is reasonable cause to believe that any of the provisions of

section

33,

34,

39

or 40 are being contravened with respect to

any person, the Justice of the Peace may by warrant authorize

acy constable to enter any place in, or in connection .with,which

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such person is, or is believed to be, employed, and to make all

necessary enquiries therein.

38.

Nothing in section

33

or 34 shall be construed to apply to

the performance of work by any child-

(a)

under order of detention in a juvenile correctional

centre or a community service order; or

( 6 )

as part of that child's instruction in any scholol,

if such labour or work is not likely to be hazardous or to

interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the

child's health or physical, mental, spiritual or social

development.

39.-(1)

A person commits an offence if that person-

(a)

employs any child in a nightclub; or

(b)

in any manner, uses a child for the purposes of any

conduct contrary to decency or morality.

(2)

An owner or operator of a nightclub who permits a

child to enter into, or remain in, the nightclub commits an

offence:

Provided that no person shall be guilty of an offence under

this section if he proves to the satisfaction of the count that at the

time of entry and while the child was permitted to remain on the

premises, the person took all reasonable steps to ascertain and

reasonably believed, that the person was not a child.

( 3 )

An owner or operator of a nightclub or premises, who

commits an offence under subsection

(1)

or

(2)

shall, in addition

to any other penalty to which he may be liable under this Act, be

liable to have his licence to operate the nightclub revoked and in

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