THE CHILD LABOUR (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) AMENDMENT ACT, 2016
THE CHILD LABOUR (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) AMENDMENT ACT, 2016 Some Important Provisions w.e.f. 29 th July, 2016 This act prohibits the engagement of children in all occupations and to prohibit the engagement of adolescents in hazardous occupations and processes and the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Meaning of Child and adolescents Child means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age or such age as may be specified in the Right. As per the Amendment child shall not be employed or permitted to work in any occupation or processes, except; Family or family enterprise, which is other than any hazardous occupations or processes set forth in the Schedule, after his school hours or during vacations. Family Means - His mother, father, brother, sister and father’s sister and brother and mother’s sister and brother. Family Enterprise - means any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by th...