An Act "to make Better Provision for Regulating the Employment of Children" became law in August, 1903. Most of the responsibility for a proper protective regulation of child labor was imposed by this enactment on the local authorities of the Kingdom. Among its provisions were the following: "1. Any local authority may make byelaws— (i) prescribing for all children, or for boys and girls separately, and with respect to all occupations or to any specified occupation,— (a) the age below which employment is illegal; and (b) the hours between which employment is illegal; and (c) the number of daily and weekly hours beyond which employment is illegal: (ii) prohibiting absolutely or permitting, subject to conditions, the employment of children in any specified occupation. "2. Any local authority may make byelaws with respect to street trading by persons under the age of sixteen. … "3. (1) A child shall not be employed between the hours of nine in the evening and six in the morning: Provided that any local authority may, by byelaw, vary these hours either generally or for any specified occupation. (2) A child under the age of eleven years shall not be employed in street trading. (3) No child who is employed half-time under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, shall be employed in any other occupation. (4) A child shall not be employed to lift, carry, or move anything so heavy as to be likely to cause injury to the child. (5) A child shall not be employed in any occupation likely to be injurious to his life, limb, health or education, regard being had to his physical condition. … "4. (1) A byelaw made under this Act shall not have any effect until confirmed by the Secretary of State, and shall not be so confirmed until at least thirty days after the local authority have published it in such manner as the Secretary of State may by general or special order direct. … "13. In this Act—The expression ‘child’ means a person under the age of fourteen years: "The expression ‘guardian,’ used in reference to a child, includes any person who is liable to maintain or has the actual custody of the child: "The expression ‘employ’ and ‘employment,’ used in reference to a child, include employment in any labour exercised by way of trade or for the purposes of gain, whether the gain be to the child or to any other person: … "The expression ‘street trading’ includes the hawking of newspapers, matches, flowers, and other articles, playing, singing, or performing for profit, shoe-blacking, and any other like occupation carried on in streets or public places." CHILDREN, UNDER THE LAW: Germany: Child Labor Legislation and its operation.