CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002) (2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (3) It shall be a defence to a charge under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) for the accused person to prove that he believed on reasonable grounds that the child or young person whom he employed was not of school-going age. (4) Subject to the Labour Relations Act [Chapter 28:01], no parent or guardian of a child or young person shall permit such child or young person to engage in hazardous labour. 11 Safeguarding of child audiences at public entertainments (1)25 Any person in occupation of premises in which is given a public entertainment for children or a public entertainment at which a substantial number of persons who are expected to attend are likely to be children or young persons who— (a) fails to provide and keep stationed wherever necessary upon the premises a sufficient number of adult attendants properly instructed and sufficiently qualified as to their duties to prevent more children or young persons from entering any part of the premises than that part can properly accommodate; or (b) fails to control the children or young persons whilst they are on the premises or entering or leaving the premises; or (c) otherwise fails to take all reasonable precautions for the safety and well-being of the children or young persons; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (2) A police officer or probation officer may enter any premises in which he has reason to believe that a public entertainment is being or is about to be provided for children or young persons or at which a substantial number of persons attending are or will be children or young persons and may inspect such premises for the purposes of ascertaining whether the provisions of subsection (1) are being carried into effect. (3) Where the occupier of any premises is convicted in terms of subsection (1) of an offence committed in connection with those premises, the court convicting such occupier may, apart from any penalty which it may impose for the said offence, cancel any licence which such occupier may hold for any public entertainment in the premises in question, and thereupon he shall be disqualified from obtaining another licence for those premises. 12 Power to bind over person having custody of young girl, child or young person to exercise proper care (1) Where upon the complaint of any person it is shown to the satisfaction of a children's court that— (a) a girl under the age of eighteen years is exposed to the risk of seduction or prostitution or is living a life of prostitution; or (b) a child or young person is being neglected or is being maintained in domestic circumstances detrimental to his welfare; the court may, if it thinks fit, having regard to all the circumstances, order the parent or guardian of the girl, child or young person to enter into his own recognizances, with or without such sureties and in such amount as the court thinks fit, that he will exercise due care and supervision of the girl, child or young person. (2) Whenever a children's court makes an order in terms of subsection (1), the officer who presided over such court shall cause to be forwarded to the registrar of the High Court, not later than seven days after the making of such order, the record of the proceedings in the matter together with such report, if any, as he may wish to append. (3) The registrar of the High Court shall, with all convenient speed, lay any record of proceedings and report received by him in terms of subsection (2) before a judge in chambers who may— 14