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What work can I do?
At 13 years you may only do the following:
- Deliver newspapers
- Shop work
- Office work
- Work in a hairdressing salon
- Wash cars by hand
- Work in a café or restaurant clearing tables etc. but not in a kitchen
- Light work in a riding stables
- Domestic work in hotels
- Light agricultural and gardening work - no machinery to be used
At 14 years you may only do light work. This applies until you reach the end of year 11.
Is there anything I am not allowed to do?
Whilst you are of compulsory school age - until the end of Year 11 - you may not do any of the following:
- Sell or deliver alcohol
- Deliver milk
- Deliver fuel
- Work in a kitchen
- Use chemicals
- Collect and sort refuse
- Work in telephone sales
- Work in a butchers or slaughterhouse
- Work more than three metres above ground - on ladders etc.
- Work in a cinema, nightclub etc.
- Work in a fairground or amusement arcade
- Undertake the personal care of residents in a nursing home
- Work in a factory or in an 'industrial undertaking'
Find out what hours you can work.
