Last Change:

04/28/2025

Employment of Children Act, 1991

Year: 1991

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Liberty & security of person, Work & Workplace rights

Description

An Act to prohibit the employment of children in certain occupations and to regulate the conditions of work of children. 

Selected provisions
Section 3 - Prohibition on Employment.

No child shall be employed or permitted to work in any of the occupations set forth in Part I of the Schedule or in any workshop wherein any of the processes set forth in Part II of that Schedule is carried on:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any establishment wherein such process is carried on by the occupier with the help of his family or to any school established, assisted or recognized by Government.

Section 2 - Definitions.

(i) “adolescent” means a person who has completed his fourteenth but has not completed his eighteenth year;
(iii) “child” means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age;