No child shall be employed in a mine, or be allowed to be present in any part of a mine which is below ground.

[No person who has not completed his seventeenth year shall be [employed to any part of a mine], unless:
(a) a certificate of fitness in the prescribed form and granted to him by a qualified medical practitioner is in the custody of the manager of the mine, and
(b) he carries while at work a token giving a reference to such certificate.]

No person who his not completed his seventeenth year shall be permitted to work in any part of a mine, either below ground or above ground unless the hours of work of such person for any day are so fixed as to allow an interval of rest of at least twelve consecutive hours which shall include at-least such seven consecutive hours between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. as may be prescribed:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any such person while employed or permitted to work in any mine as an apprentice or for the purpose of receiving vocational training, in such circumstances and in accordance with such conditions as may be prescribed [:]
[Provided further that such person while so employed or permitted to work, shall be granted a rest period of at least thirteen consecutive hours between two working periods.]

In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,
(c) Child means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year;