Minors quick reference

Measured from the minor's time of dismissal. There is no age banding on this figure — the 12 hours applies equally to a 15-day-old infant and a 16-year-old.

If the minor attends school the next day, turnaround ends at the school start time rather than at the call. This is the provision most likely to be missed, because the call sheet shows the call and never shows the bell.

Where no tutoring time has been banked, the Producer must ensure a minimum of three hours of tutoring takes place after turnaround the next day, at a location convenient to the tutor and minor.

A sixth day requires permission granted in advance under A2708. This is the minors equivalent of a weekend rule — it caps days rather than setting hours.

Stated twice in the agreement, in both the hours article and the parent/guardian article, and stated absolutely — there is no variance procedure attached to it.

Total work time including the meal break must fall inside the window. Extensions need a written A2708 request delivered 48 hours ahead.

Applies to minors not attending school during regularly scheduled breaks, such as spring and summer break.

Spring, summer, winter breaks. Not attending school those days.

Under-6 needs prior express written consent. Not unreasonably withheld, but never automatic.

From the minor's time of dismissal to their call — or school start time — the next day.

Or 2+ school days in each of 3 or more consecutive production weeks — either trigger is enough on its own.

New in this term. A 17-18 year old is not a "Minor" under A2701(a), so without this clause tutoring would not apply to them at all.

For a minor from another country, an equivalent qualification plus a clean Criminal Records Review Act search.

Corrected 2026-09-02 against the rendered page: the caps differ by direction. Banking ACCRUES at a maximum of 2 hr/day tutored after school on non-work school days (f)(vi), or 5 hr/day on non-working days when school is out (f)(v). USING banked time in lieu of on-set tutoring is capped at 3 hr per work day for elementary grades and 4 hr for high school (f)(vii). Banked time must be used within 30 days of the last banked time worked, with a summer exception (up to one week's worth banked ahead of the school year), and it is paid and tutor-supervised like any other tutoring.

A proxy cannot give consent on the parent/guardian's behalf for medical, disclosure or role-review matters — A2702(a)(ii), A2703(d), (e), (f) stay with the actual parent/guardian.

Upon request of the parent/guardian/chaperone of a performer aged 17, chaperone-presence rights (A2703(b)) and the requirement to accompany the minor when travelling overnight (A2703(c)) both extend to them — new in the 2025-2028 agreement. A 17-year-old is not a "Minor" under A2701(a), so without this request these protections would otherwise lapse at 17.

Applies to a minor UNDER FIFTEEN whose gross earnings on a production (including re-use and residuals) pass $2,000. From that point the Producer deducts 25% of all subsequent gross payments into trust — not the whole excess — and the minor's side chooses the trustee: the ACTRA Performers' Rights Society, the Public Guardian and Trustee, another permitted trust, or a court-approved account. The PGT applies only by default, if no choice is made. Rewritten in this term — the 2021-2024 agreement made the PGT the automatic destination with no choice, so this is now bargained agreement text rather than a statutory aside.

The agreement itself sets flat permit fees rather than a surcharge — $225 for the first week and $175 for each subsequent week for a performer who is not a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant, and the amount authorised on the permit form for a Canadian performer (A601(a)(i)–(ii), confirmed by Sideletter No. 6). The three-permit rule comes from the union's published sheet, not from Article A27.

Most often the Thursday of the following week. From the union's published sheet, which is held in this project's sources; the agreement itself does not set this.

Applies to minors employed in California, and to minors taken out of California under a contractual arrangement made there. The detailed provisions below are introduced as applying to minors who are NOT in that position. A Los Angeles production needs the California Labor and Education Codes; this site does not carry them.

Section 50's own provisions then apply in addition to those legal requirements. That is the case this page transcribes, and it is the case a Canadian shoot is in.

The words are “any child labor law or regulation in applicable state or other jurisdictions”. “Other jurisdictions” is what reaches British Columbia. Treat Section 50 as a floor and check the provincial rules on top of it.

Producer notifies the Union of the employment and of the area where it will take place. Separately, the parent or guardian must be told the terms and conditions at engagement, including the producer's name, the place and duration of any location work, and any special abilities required.

Not a minor for this purpose if the performer has satisfied the compulsory education laws of the governing state, is married, is in the armed forces, or is legally emancipated. Since 2023 an emancipated performer is still covered by the education provisions if they have not satisfied those education laws.

Only to the extent of the inconsistency; the rest of the other section survives. Disputes under Section 50 are arbitrable regardless of what the performer was paid or guaranteed — §50.L.

Required “if such summary is readily available”, which is a softer obligation than it first reads.

Expressed as 12:30 a.m. on the morning of the non-school day. Identical to UBCP's window at both ends — A2705(b)(i) sets 5:00 a.m., 10:00 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. too.

The agreement works the example itself: a minor at school by 8:30 a.m. Thursday must be dismissed by 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The clock runs to the school bell, not to the call — and the call sheet never shows the bell.

A day of school only, or travel only, does not count toward the six. UBCP is tighter: five days in any seven, with a seventh consecutive day prohibited outright.

At least two adults must be present at all times during a fitting.

The minor may not be held for transportation.

From the FIRST day of employment, on any day the minor's own school is in session. If only two consecutive days were planned and more calls become necessary, the producer must use best efforts to provide a teacher on the third day and at the latest the fourth.

No teacher is needed for post-production work called after the minor's school has been dismissed for the day — §50.D(1)(c).

The teacher needs credentials appropriate to the level of education from Washington D.C. or any US state, but need not be credentialed by or resident in the state where the work happens unless local law says otherwise — §50.D(2).

A teacher may not serve more than one production in a day, except in an emergency — §50.D(5).

The teacher decides the hours. The maximum that may be set aside in one day is 4 hours for kindergarten, 5 for grades 1–6 and 6 for grades 7–12.

On a day the minor is not required on set. If the parent does not send them, the producer may teach them on set, at the minor's home, or at the teacher's home — the last only if no other untaught minors are present there.

New this term. It does not commence consecutive employment, which is the qualifier that stops it triggering the consecutive-employment rules.

A stationary bus or car counts only if used exclusively for the minors during instruction. A MOVING car or bus is never acceptable, and minors must not be taught while being transported to or from local locations. Producer supplies equipment and supplies; the parent secures the assignments and books from the minor's own school — §50.D(9).

The 2026 memorandum adds that on a parent or guardian's request the producer must make best efforts to permit visual access where feasible — an open or glass door, a window, or a monitor.

Given to the parents to deliver to the minor's own school at the end of the assignment, or at whatever interval that school requires.

With the right, subject to filming requirements, to be within sight and sound of the minor — except in the schoolroom, where §50.D(10) restricts who may be present. A teacher's presence does not relieve the parent of this.

The minor must be required to report to the teacher immediately on arrival at the place of employment.

Applies when the working parent is at the place of employment but not at the scene of employment.

And must show sufficient maturity to be approved by the producer, and by the teacher if one is present.

The words are “or employed in any manner”, so this is not limited to those three departments.

The 2014 text required one individual per set to coordinate welfare matters for minors under FOURTEEN. The 2026 memorandum strikes that sentence and REPLACES it: minors under SIXTEEN get one or more designated chaperones — which may be a teacher, welfare worker or child labour coordinator — with welfare coordination folded into the same text. It does not apply where the minor is not called to set but is called for up to an hour of wardrobe, make-up, hair, promotional publicity, personal appearances or audio recording after school, accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Parents and guardians may not bring minors who are not engaged by the producer to the place of employment.

Signed by a doctor licensed in the state where the minor lives or works, and supplied by the parent or guardian.

Where a parent refuses on religious grounds, the producer must at least obtain written consent for external emergency aid, so far as that is not itself contrary to those convictions.

The parent may have the teacher or stunt coordinator discuss it with the minor — but if the minor persists in the belief, REGARDLESS OF ITS VALIDITY, they shall not be required to perform. That is an unusually flat right; there is no reasonableness test in it.

Physical, athletic or acrobatic activity of an extraordinary nature. The producer will comply with reasonable requests for safety equipment.

Subject to the limitations of the state where production takes place, and extendable at the producer's choice to anyone working in close proximity to a minor other than their own child. The memorandum defines the check: identity, seven years of address history, reportable criminal records, sex-offender registries, and where applicable professional licences and driving records.

Including using a replica to age up or de-age the performance for that purpose. New this term, and the only lettered subsection Section 50 has gained since 2014 — the 2023 additions were new subparagraphs inside subsections that already existed.

Transportation, lodging and meals, negotiated alongside the minor's own deal — which means it is a bargaining obligation, not a fixed entitlement. Applies where state law or the agreement requires the adult to be present.

A minor under 11 may be required to share a room with their parent or guardian; a minor from 11 to 16 may be required to share with a parent of the same sex.