SAFEGUARDING OF EMPLOYMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1947 - SECT 2 Restriction on employment of persons not Northern Ireland workers.

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SAFEGUARDING OF EMPLOYMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1947 - SECT 2

Restriction on employment of persons not Northern Ireland workers.

2.(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (6) of this section, a person
who is not a Northern Ireland worker within the meaning of section one of
this Act shall not after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred
and forty-seven, undertake or become or be engaged in, any employment in
Northern Ireland under a contract of service or apprenticeship unless he is
authorised to do so by the terms of a permit issued by the Ministry under the
provisions of the next succeeding section of this Act.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (6) of this section, a person
shall not after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and
forty-seven, knowingly engage or employ in any employment in Northern Ireland
under a contract of service or apprenticeship any person who is not a Northern
Ireland worker within the meaning of section one of this Act unless that
last-mentioned person is authorised to be engaged in such employment by the
terms of a permit issued by the Ministry under the next succeeding section of
this Act.

(3) It is hereby declared that, for the purposes of this section, employment
under a contract of service or apprenticeship shall include employment by any
public or local authority.

(4) If any person contravenes, or neglects or fails to comply with, any of the
foregoing provisions of this section he shall be guilty of an offence under
this section and shall in respect of each such offence be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds together with a further fine
not exceeding one pound for every day during which the offence continues after
such conviction.

(5) Where an offence under this section has been committed by a body corporate
and is proved to have been so committed with the consent or approval of, or to
have been facilitated by any neglect on the part of, any director, manager,
secretary, or other officer of such body corporate, such director, manager,
secretary, or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of such offence
and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(6) Nothing in this section shall apply to or affect the employment of any
person in any of the employments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, or in
any employment exempted from the operation of this Act by order of the
Ministry so long as such order continues in force.

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SAFEGUARDING OF EMPLOYMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1947 - SECT 2