Commencement of Act.
XII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall commence and take effect from and after the First Day of July in the present Year.
Act may be altered this Session.
XIII. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be amended, altered, or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament.
[APPENDIX C.]
ITALY.
(Translation.)
LAW FORBIDDING THE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN
VAGRANT PROFESSIONS, DEC. 21, 1873.
Article 1.—Whoever should entrust, or under any plea should deliver, to Italian subjects or to aliens, persons of either sex under the age of 18, although children or under the guardianship of the persons entrusting them, and whoever, whether Italian subjects or aliens, should receive them for the purpose of employing them within the kingdom in any way and under any name in the exercise of vagrant professions such as jugglers, conjurers, clowns, itinerant players or singers, tight-rope dancers, diviners of dreams, exhibitors of animals, mendicants, and such like, shall be punished with imprisonment from one to three months, and with a fine from 51 to 250 lire.