(1) In this section ''the Act of 1996'' means the Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1996.

(2) Nothing in the preceding sections of this Act shall prejudice the provisions of the Act of 1996.

(3) The obligation of an employer under section 15 of the Act of 1996 to keep the records referred to in that section at the place where the young person or child concerned is employed shall, if the young person or child is employed by the employer at 2 or more places, be construed as an obligation to keep the said records at the place from which the activities that the young person or child is employed to carry on are principally directed or controlled.

(4) Subsection (2) of section 22 of the Act of 1996 is hereby amended by -

(a) the insertion in paragraph (a) after ''work'' of ''or from which he or she has reasonable grounds for supposing the activities that an employee is employed to carry on are directed or controlled (whether generally or as respects particular matters) '', and

(b) the insertion in paragraph (b) after ''place'' of ''or any employee the activities aforesaid of whom are directed or controlled from any such premises or place''.