Last Change:
04/30/2025
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prohibition of Employment of Children Act, 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Liberty & security of person, Work & Workplace rights
Description
An Act to prohibit the employment of children and to regulate employment of adolescents in certain occupations and processes in the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Whereas Article 11 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan provides that no child below the age of fourteen years shall be engaged in any factory or mine or any other hazardous employment. And whereas clause (e) of Article 37 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan further provides that the State shall make provisions for securing just and humane conditions of work, ensuring that children and women are not employed in vocations unsuited to their age or sex. And whereas it is expedient to repeal and re-enact the law relating to the employment of children and adolescents in the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and for matters connected herewith or ancillary thereto.
Selected provisions
(1) No child shall be employed or permitted to work in any establishment:
Provided that a child not below the age of 12 years may be engaged in the light work, alongside his family member, for a maximum of two hours per day mainly for the purpose of acquiring skills, in a private undertaking, or in any school established, assisted or recognized by Government for such purpose.
(2) No adolescent shall be employed or permitted to work in any hazardous work included in the Schedule.