HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS: Memorandum by the Home Secretary.

-2- d involve a new and large measure of delegated legislation. project, therefore, requires to be carefully considered the light of the heavy legislative programme with which ###iament will be faced during the next few years. If the a of a standard code is once broached with outside erests, it will become known generally, and the Government l, as the Memorandum recognises, be more or less committed the project and would find it very difficult afterwards withdraw. The Inter-Departmental Committee's Report makes it clear t the proposal for a standard code is based simply on eral grounds and not on evidence of injury to the young ple.