Section 3

in the case of a person employed or engaged to take part in any public entertainment, a person under the age of 16 years; and

in any other case, a person under the age of 14 years;“Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Labour, and includes a Deputy Commissioner for Labour, an Assistant or Principal Assistant Commissioner for Labour, and such other persons as the President may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be vested with all or any of the powers conferred and the duties imposed upon the Commissioner by this Act or by any rules made thereunder;“employ” and “employment” used in reference to a child or young person means employment in any labour exercised by way of a trade or for the purposes of gain whether the gain is to the child or to any other person;“entertainment” includes an exhibition or performance, but does not include any entertainment given by the pupils of any registered school at or under the auspices of that school; and a person is deemed to take part in an entertainment when the person is employed in or in connection with such entertainment whether as a performer, stagehand, musician or otherwise howsoever;“guardian”, in relation to a child or young person, includes any person who in the opinion of the court having cognizance of any case in relation to the child, or in which the child is concerned, has for the time being the charge of, or control over, the child or young person;“legal guardian”, in relation to a child or young person, means a person lawfully appointed by deed or will or by the order of a competent court to be the guardian of that child or young person;“place of safety” means any place or institution appointed or declared to be a place of safety under section 41 or any other suitable place the occupier of which is willing temporarily to receive a child;“protector” includes the Director of Social Welfare, Assistant Directors of Social Welfare and such other persons as the President may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be vested with all or any of the powers conferred and the duties imposed upon a protector by this Act or by any rules made thereunder;“public entertainment” means an entertainment to which the public or any section of the public is admitted or in connection with which any charge, whether for admission or not, is made to, or any collection or subscription is received at such entertainment from, any of the audience;“young person” means —

in the case of a person employed or engaged to take part in any public entertainment, a person who has attained the age of 16 years and is under the age of 18 years;

in any other case, a person who has attained the age of 14 years and is under the age of 18 years;“transferred child” means a child under the age of 14 years who is living apart from his natural father or mother but does not include a child —

who is living with a grandparent, a brother or sister by the whole or half blood, or a brother or sister of a deceased parent by the whole blood;

who being a female is over the age of 12 years and is married and is living with her husband or with a parent or grandparent of her husband;

who has been lawfully adopted in accordance with any written law relating to adoption and is living with the adopter;

who is living with a legal guardian;

who is living with a person other than his natural father or mother in pursuance of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction of Singapore or of Malaysia, or in pursuance of an order made under the provisions of this Act or the Women’s Charter [Cap. 353] or of any corresponding enactment of Malaysia or any part thereof;

who is an inmate of any orphanage, hospital, home or institution maintained by the Government, or of any place of safety; or

who is a boarder at a school registered under the Education Act [Cap. 87] or any corresponding enactment of Malaysia or any part thereof, or is regularly attending such a school and is living with a friend or relative of his natural father or mother or of his legal guardian or adopter, with the consent of the father, mother, legal guardian or adopter, as the case may be.“Transferred child” and “child” shall be deemed to apply to a child in respect of whom a bond has been executed or a committal order made under the provisions of this Act until such time as the bond or order is discharged or the child attains the age of 18 years, whichever is the earlier event.