25 Restrictions on persons under eighteen going abroad for the purpose of performing for profit

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25  Restrictions on persons under eighteen going abroad for the purpose of performing for profit

(1)     No person having [responsibility for] any [child] shall allow him, nor shall any person cause or procure any [child], to go abroad

[(a)]     for the purpose of singing, playing, performing, or being exhibited, for profit, [or

(b)     for the purpose of taking part in a sport, or working as a model, where payment in respect of his doing so, other than for defraying expenses, is made to him or to another person,]

unless . . . a licence has been granted in respect of him under this section:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply in any case where it is proved that the [child] was only temporarily resident within [the United Kingdom].

(2)     A [justice of the peace] may grant a licence in such form as the Secretary of State may prescribe, and subject to such restrictions and conditions as the [justice of the peace] thinks fit, for any [child who has attained the age of fourteen years] to go abroad [for any purpose referred to in subsection (1) of this section,] but no such licence shall be granted in respect of

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