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Now over a century old, the 1920 Act is intended to protect young people from working in dangerous or high-risk industrial settings. To accept the noble Lord’s amendment, which exempts only heritage railways as an industrial setting, would not remove all the employment restrictions for young people. There are many other pieces of legislation and local authority by-laws that interact with, or depend on, the 1920 Act. The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 prohibits child employment under the age of 14 and restricts any work to “light work”. The Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 and the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 make similar provisions.