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| short_title           = Mines (Prohibition of Child Labour Underground) Act 1900
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act to prohibit Child Labour Underground in Mines.
| year                  = 1900
| citation              = [[63 & 64 Vict.]] c. 21
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| royal_assent          = 30 July 1900
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| repealing_legislation = [[Mines and Quarries Act 1954]]
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| status                = repealed
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The '''Mines (Prohibition of Child Labour Underground) Act 1900''' ([[63 & 64 Vict.]] c. 21) was an [[Act of Parliament|Act]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]. The statute prevented boys under the age of thirteen from working, or being (for the purposes of employment) in an underground [[Mining|mine]].<ref name=Pipkin>{{cite book|last=Pipkin|first=Charles W.|title=Social Politics and Modern Democracies, Volume 2|year=2005|publisher=[[Kessinger Publishing]]|location=Whitefish|isbn=1-4191-1091-8|page=67|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pN9GNlVSvYoC&dq=%22Mines+%28Prohibition+of+Child+Labour+Underground%29+Act%22+1900&pg=PA67|editor=Reprint|accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref>
An estimated 3,000 boys were affected by the new law,<ref name=Pipkin/> which was passed on 30 July 1900.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bedwell|first=C. E. A.|title=The Legislation of the Empire (Vol. 1)|year=1909|publisher=Butterworth & Co.|location=London|page=63|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MT59ZrQdDEYC&dq=%22Mines+%28Prohibition+of+Child+Labour+Underground%29+Act%22+1900&pg=PT98|author2=The Earl of Roseberry |author3=MacDonell, Sir John |accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref>
The act was repealed in full by the [[Mines and Quarries Act 1954]] ([[2 & 3 Eliz. 2]]. c. 70);<ref name=HMSO>{{cite web|title=Mines and Quarries Act 1954|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/70/schedule/FIFTH/enacted|work=legislation.gov.uk|publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]]|accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref> by such time the act was out of date and was no longer necessary due to the stronger provisions in the [[Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act 1920]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/10-11/65/enacted/data.htm|title=Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act 1920|website=legislation.gov.uk|publisher=National Archives|access-date=2019-07-25|quote=1(1): No child shall be employed in any industrial undertaking.}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Mining in the United Kingdom]]
==References==
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[[Category:United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1900]]
[[Category:United Kingdom labour law]]
[[Category:Coal mining in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Child labour law]]
[[Category:Mining law and governance]]
[[Category:Underground mining]]
[[Category:1900 in labor relations]]
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